T.C. McCarthy is an award winning and critically acclaimed southern author whose short fiction has appeared in Per Contra: The International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas, in Story Quarterly and in Nature. His book, Tyger Burning, was published by Baen in 2019 and its sequel, Tyger Bright, was released in 2020.   Also check out his older, award winning trilogy, Germline, Exogene and Chimera. In addition to being an author, T.C. is a PhD scientist, a Fulbright Fellow, and a Howard Hughes Biomedical Research Scholar. Visit him at http://www.tcmccarthy.com or at his YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/user/therealtcmccarthy/.