Mike Powers is a UX Designer and writer with a passion for vampire fiction, both written and cinematic. He's longed for the story of a vampire that could fit into a world without superstition, without mythology, and without magic; a world ruled by science, logic, and reason, where everything has a rational—albeit fantastic—explanation. But he also wanted vampires who mirrored the elegance and mystique that Bela Lugosi engendered in Dracula during the Golden Era of Hollywood. That is what he's brought to The Well of Gilgamesh: A Wampyr Novel. Through his Wampyr Novel series, he will reinvent the classic monsters of Hollywood using a careful mix of historical revisionism, evolutionary science, and subtle nods to the stories that gave the original monsters their first brushes with celluloid fame. Mike currently lives in Seattle with his wife and twin boys.