Rick Claypool is the author of the post-apocalyptic workplace horror novella The Mold Farmer (Six Gallery Press, 2020), the weird dystopian superhero novel Leech Girl Lives (Spaceboy Books, 2017), and the not-for-children horror children's book Tentacle Head (2022). His short fiction appears in several online publications and anthologies. 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.