John Mickey

John Mickey's career so far has included running pages for congressmen in Washington, pounding fighter plane rivets in Bethpage, mucking hospital air handlers in Durham, and cramming toothpaste into tubes in Cincinnati. He has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Medicine from Duke. His internship and residency in Internal Medicine were done at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital. He has served in leadership positions and practiced medicine at Straub Clinic and Hospital in Honolulu for many years.

Dr. Mickey sees fiction as an important tool for social change. In Poisoned Medicine, the American competition-based healthcare system collapses into chaos as its constituent parts claw one another apart. In Ultimatum Day, preemptive nuclear war with North Korea and Iran is averted by preemptive biological subterfuge. And now in Buck and Petal Chill the Anthropocene, another pair of not-so-ordinary protagonists must reverse ten thousand years of human abuse of the biosphere and replace fossil fuel with a clean, sustainable alternative in the next ninety days.

John Mickey lives and writes in exotic Manoa, where dreams of saving the world are born. He is most proud of being offered a job teaching windsurfing on Kailua Beach.