Jack Slay Jr. teaches English and servant leadership at LaGrange College in Georgia. In addition to the novel Sleeping Policemen, written with Dale Bailey, he has written short fiction for Realms of Fantasy, Cemetery Dance, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Talebones, and other publications. He is married to Lori; together they have three sons: Kirk, Justin, and Reed.