Michael W. Clark has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from U.C.L.A. He has been a research scientist as well as an entrepreneur. Along with these professional endeavors, he has been writing fiction and poetry since he was a teenager. He has five poems and forty short stories published in various print and electronic journals. He is the creator, editor and contributor for the fiction and non-fiction website, A. Hick's Hope. He presently lives in Santa Monica, CA.