Rachael K. Jones is a science fiction and fantasy author, and the submissions editor of Escape Pod. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in PodCastle, Escape Pod, the Drabblecast, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Crossed Genres, Daily Science Fiction, and Penumbra. She has a degree in English and is currently pursuing a second degree in Speech-Language Pathology. She lives in Athens, GA, with her husband and perpetual alpha reader, Jason.