Michael Jarrett Walsh owns and operates Old Earth Books, a small press science fiction publisher.
He primarily publishes re-prints, though occasionally he issues original books from established authors.
[1] His first publication was a short story collection Rude Astronauts, by Allen Steele, published in 1993.
He attended his first science fiction convention in 1968, and was chair of ConStellation, the 1983 Worldcon in Baltimore.
[7] He is a part-time publisher: he worked full time as a sales manager for Johns Hopkins University Press from 1988 until his retirement.