Gary Poole

Gary Poole is an American author whose best-known work is his contribution to the collaborative post-apocalyptic Black Tide Rising series, created by John Ringo. Poole's entries in the series -- including We Shall Rise, Voices of the Fall, and United We Stand -- follow ordinary people and communities surviving in the aftermath of a pandemic that collapses global civilization, working within Ringo's shared setting alongside other contributing authors. His fiction focuses on small-group survival, improvisation, and rebuilding order amid catastrophe, characteristic of the collaborative-universe approach that Black Tide Rising popularized within the post-apocalyptic genre.