Mike Carey was born in 1959 in Liverpool. He is the writer of comic books, novels, and films. Carey began his career at 2000 AD where he created the original series Th1rt3en and Carver Hale. For the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics Carey went on to write the entire run of the Eisner Award-nominated comic book Lucifer. He also wrote the original graphic novels The Sandman Presents: The Furies with John Bolton and Hellblazer: All His Engines with Leonardo Manco. He is the ongoing writer of X-Men: Legacy. In 2008 Carey worked on a number of different titles, including tie-ins to the "Secret Invasion" crossover storyline. In 2011 he wrote a crossover between X-Men Legacy and New Mutants titled Age of X. In January 2014, he had another prose novel published which was titled The Girl With All The Gifts.It has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2015 in the category of science fiction. It was released to critical acclaim and was announced to be made into a film, which would go by the name She Who Brings Gifts. (Bowker Author Biography)