Michael Pearce’s stories have appeared in Epoch, Shenandoah, The Gettysburg Review, Dogwood, and The Mississippi Review, and one of them, “Gumplowicz of Krakow,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He worked for several years at the Exploratorium, the San Francisco science museum. He lives with his wife and son and their little mutt Macy in Oakland, California.