Anaea Lay lives in Chicago, Illinois where she writes, cooks, plays board games, reads too much, and questions the benevolence of the universe. Her work has appeared in many places including Apex, Penumbra, Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, and Nightmare. She lives online at anaealay.com.

C. S. E. Cooney lives and writes across the street from a Victorian Strolling Park. She is the author of How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes and Jack o’ the Hills. "Witch, Beast, Saint” is the first erotic fairytale in the Witch's Garden Series. The second, "The Witch in the Almond Tree," can be found on Amazon.com. With her fellow artists in the Banjo Apocalypse Crinoline Troubadours, she appears at conventions and other venues, dramatizing excerpts from her fiction, singing songs, and performing such story-poems as "The Sea King's Second Bride," for which she won the Rhysling Award in 2011. Her website can be found at http://csecooney.com.