Michael James Carey, who publishes under the pen name M. R. Carey, is a British writer working across comic books, novels, and film. He was born in 1959 and has built a career spanning multiple genres and formats. In comics, Carey is known for his work on several major titles. He wrote the long-running Lucifer series, a spin-off from Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, and spent three years on Hellblazer. He also created the original series Crossing Midnight and The Unwritten for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, and had a lengthy run writing Marvel's X-Men. Beyond comics, Carey has worked in prose and film. His 2014 novel The Girl with All the Gifts was adapted into a film in 2016, in which he was involved.