Jack Dann is a multiple award winning author who has written or edited over sixty books, including the groundbreaking novels Junction, Starhiker, The Man Who Melted, The Memory Cathedral, which is an international bestseller, the Civil War novel The Silent, and the recently published Bad Medicine, which has been compared to the works of Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson. His short stories have appeared in Omni and Playboy and other major magazines and anthologies. Dann lives in Australia on a farm overlooking the sea and 'commutes' back and forth to Los Angeles and New York.