Michele Brittany is a writer, editor, podcaster, photographer, and independent scholar.  Her interests include spy cinema, horror studies, and mummy representation in popular culture.  Her first edited book was James Bond and Popular Culture, followed by the Bram Stoker Award nominated Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre. She and her partner, Nicholas Diak, co-created and co-chair the annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference and have co-edited Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays. Michele and Nicholas also co-host the H.P. Lovecast podcast. She resides in Phoenix, Arizona with Nicholas and their kitties, Algernon and Cecily.