Douglas A. Mackey, born in Evanston, Illinois in 1947, is a writer, editor, and literary critic living in Fairfield, Iowa. He grew up in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Kansas, and has a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas. He worked as a software engineer at HRSoft, Inc., and enterprise editor and webmaster at Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine. Since 1994 he has served as executive editor for Time Portal Publications, editing books about time, space, and consciousness. He is the author of seven books (see below).