Mickey Zucker Reichert is a pediatrician, parent to multitudes (at least it seems like that many), bird wrangler, goat roper, dog trainer, cat herder, horse rider and fish feeder, who has learned (the hard way) not to let macaws remove contact lenses. Also she is the author of twenty-two novels (including the RENSHAI, NIGHTFALL, BARAKHAI and BIFROST series), one illustrated novella, and fifty-plus short stories. Mickey's claim to fame is that she has performed brain surgery and her parents really are rocket scientists.