Born in Seattle the same year as the first Nuclear Bomb tests at the Nevada test site, Mike Mallory continues this tradition of fissionable energy in his visual art and spoken word contributions to Pacific Northwest culture. His mission is to enliven the world by responding to life with insight and delight in order to resurrect the living dead. He has performed his poetry at many venues around the Salish Sea. Mike won the July 2009 Wired and Unplugged Poetry Slam and several of his writings have been included in the Driftwood Chronicles anthology. He has some essays on Sribd and two of his plays have been staged.