"My first attempt at writing occurred when I was about eight, and my consuming desires at that point were to be either a nurse or an astronomer."

Since Strange Horizons launched in September the questions I've gotten most often are: How do you do it? How do you plan to make this work? Where does your money come from? Can I do it too?

We miss our limbs, the splay / of arms, the limbo legs, the / inimate positioning of apertures / for sex;

"Your mother knew enough to paint the doors and windows to other worlds. Those are the most important doors there are; it's only through them that the terrible darkness of our time can escape, only through them that the fish can swim here. She painted maps for them. If those doors are shut forever, we're all lost."