John Kessel teaches creative writing and literature at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. A winner of the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and Tiptree awards, his books include Good News from Outer Space, Corrupting Dr. Nice, The Pure Product, and most recently, The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories. For more about the author, see his website. You may contact him at tenshi@ncsu.edu.