Rick Claypool is the author of the post-apocalyptic workplace horror novella The Mold Farmer (Six Gallery Press, 2020) and the weird dystopian superhero novel Leech Girl Lives (Spaceboy Books, 2017). His short fiction appears in several online publications and anthologies, including The Future Will Be Written by Robots (Spaceboy Books, 2020) and Not My President (Thoughtcrime Press, 2017). By day, Rick researches corporate crime for a consumer advocacy organization. If he’s not writing, he’s probably in the woods, looking under logs and rocks for fungi and slime molds. He lives in Rhode Island. Find him online at rickclaypool.org.