Ambrose McJunkin lived the first four years of his life on the Big Island of Hawaii before being extradited to the Pacific Northwest, for what could only have been a grave past-life injustice. Though not historically as attracted to words as he has been to numbers, being alone with his thoughts has been a life staple, and the prospect of legitimizing that activity by channeling it into creating surprising, genre-confusing stories excites him. Despite the fact that he’s an ex-member of many online writing forums and that the left side of his brain keeps pulling him in other directions, he cannot give up his nostalgia for that nine-year-old boy who used to write Mortal Kombat stories. He now lives in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Jill, and dreads shoveling snow every winter.