Peri Dwyer Worrell grew up on a Puerto Rican street in Manhattan, gaining a keen appreciation of the value of diversity, tolerance, and taking no crap from anyone. Peri practiced as a physician for 30 years. After becoming disabled by inflammatory arthritis, Peri returned to writing. Publications: • Poetry in Tiny Seed, Aggregate, Westerly, The Five-Two, and (coincidentally) Crack the Spine Short stories in Mystery Weekly, HOZ Journal of Speculative Literature, and The Dime Show Review. He has a self-published trilogy of science-fiction novels.