Michael Paul grew up a couple hours out of Kansas City and studied way too much history and political science at university.  He has  worked as an editorial cartoonist and was briefly an art director at an ad agency in Russia in the “Wild Nineties.”  He taught history and political science at several universities, traipsed around the world a bit doing research in archives, and now lives just outside Washington, D.C.  He continues to wander the earth when he can.  Some of his short stories have been published in Satire and The Door, and his illustrations have appeared in My Friend, Balloons, Gravel, The Raven Chronicles, and others.