Michael Winkle

Michael Dayne Winkle was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, many long years ago. He marks important life events mainly by the books he has encountered. The high point of Hoover Elementary School, for instance, was discovering the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, which sparked the pre-Steampunk idea for a “Victorian World” of nineteenth-century adventure.

High school in the small town of Bixby coincided with his discovery of science fiction literature, H. P. Lovecraft, Andre Norton, P. J. Farmer’s pulp-hero meta-fiction, Marvel Comics, astronomy, true crime and Charles Fort. Then came Oklahoma State University, with its library of two million volumes.

After receiving a B.A. in English, Mike worked as library assistant, bookkeeper, intern in a mortgage foreclosure office (bound to make one popular), and in the usual array of “writer experience” jobs, from car washer to postal worker. He is the author of thirty or so professionally published stories and articles, including: “Wolfhead” (“Tales of the Witch World 3,” edited by Andre Norton); “A Wondrous Portal Opened Wide,” (“Illumen” Vol. 13, no. 2, Winter 2017); and “After the Matilda Briggs Went Down,” (“Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show,” June 2017).

Mike can be reached at the creaky old email address sakria@aol.com or at the slightly newer sakria@outlook.com. His website, the Fantasy World Project can be found at (predictably): http://www.fantasyworldproject.com/index.html