James Gurley is a 60-year-old writer born in Corinth, Mississippi, but now lives in Tucson, Arizona. He attended 3 colleges, has two Associate of Arts degrees (One in Culinary Arts). He has been a laboratory technician, a musician, an oil rig worker, a demolition expert, a chef, and a writer with 18 published novels, 9 of them from Severed Press, including the Ice Station Zombie series, the Judgment Day series, and a couple of Kaiju novels. He writes full time, plays in local rock bands part-time, and lives with his wife in the Arizona desert.