Wytchfire (Book 1) (40 page)

Acknowledgements

Thank you, Alysha, for your support of my writing.

I’d like to thank my editors, Alyssa Hall and Kelly Reed, for their hard work on this manuscript and for helping a boyhood Tolkien fan realize his dream. Also, thank you to the rest of the team at Red Adept for making the book shine.

About the Author

Michael Meyerhofer grew up in Iowa where he learned to cope with the unbridled excitement of the Midwest by reading books and not getting his hopes up, Probably due to his father’s influence, he developed a fondness for Star Trek, weight lifting, and collecting medieval weapons. He is also addicted to caffeine and the History Channel.

Michael Meyerhofer’s third poetry book,
Damnatio Memoriae,
won the Brick Road Poetry Book Contest. His previous books of poetry are
Blue Collar Eulogies
(Steel Toe Books, finalist for the Grub Street Book Prize) and
Leaving Iowa
(winner of the Liam Rector First Book Award).

He has also published five chapbooks:
Pure Elysium
(winner of the Palettes and Quills Chapbook Contest
), The Clay-Shaper’s Husband
(winner of the Codhill Press Chapbook Award),
Real Courage
(winner of the Terminus Magazine and Jeanne Duval Editions Poetry Chapbook Prize),
The Right Madness of Beggars
(winner of the Uccelli Press 3rd Annual Chapbook Competition),
and Cardboard Urn
(winner of the Copperdome Chapbook Contest).

Individual poems won the Marjorie J. Wilson Best Poem Contest, the Laureate Prize for Poetry, the James Wright Poetry Award, and the Annie Finch Prize for Poetry. He is the Poetry Editor of
Atticus Review.
His work has appeared in a number of journals including
Ploughshares, Hayden’s Ferry Review, North American Review, River Styx,
and
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine.