Mike McCune was born in Glendale, California. A photographer before turning writer, he graduated with a B.A. in Communications from California State University at Fullerton in 1978, where he served three years as Public Affairs Photographer. From 1980 to 1989 he was an in-house corporate photographer for the Automobile Club of Southern California. In 1997 he won the Pacific Northwest Writers Association award for excellence for his screenplay, Islands, and in 2000 for the first of his Big Deuce novellas, My Sweet Lorraine. His poem, American Somnambulist was published in the 17th anthology of Great Poems of the Western World. McCune’s works have appeared in Collectors Photography, Petersen’s Photographic Magazine, Rangefinder, Westways, West Wind Review, Rogue’s Gallery, and The Daily Courier. He lives in southern Oregon near his sons, Jim and Dan.