Todd Michael Cox was born in the northwoods of Wisconsin, and has been writing for most of his life. Although he's had short pieces published here and there he considers the novel to be his natural medium. His work ranges from comic adventures (like DIZZLEMUCK) to darker studies of death, mourning, and the loss and recapture of innocence in modern day America. He counts Edward Abbey, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter Thompson, Harper Lee, Katherine Dunn, Richard Brautigan, On Fillmore, old barns, and skulls and bones among his influences.

"Nature's probably my greatest inspiration," Cox says. "Everything I need is found in nature, it compels me to create and care. If you can't find what you're looking for in wild places or the eyes of wild creatures, it probably doesn't exist."

Cox is also a musician and an avid herper... which means if he's not writing he's either somewhere with a guitar, or off in a swamp or field looking for reptiles and amphibians. He and his wife were married in Scotland in 2001, the trip that inspired DIZZLEMUCK. They live in Wisconsin with one large dog, two cats, and two serpents.

He can be contacted via sybilpressbooks@gmail.com