Ruthanna Emrys is the author of A Half-Built Garden, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots, as well as co-writer of Reactor’s Reading the Weird column with Anne M. Pillsworth. She writes radically hopeful short stories about religion and aliens and psycholinguistics. She lives in a labyrinthine apartment in the Netherlands with her wife and their large, strange family. There she creates real versions of imaginary foods, gives unsolicited advice, and occasionally attempts to save the world. You can find her at https://www.ruthannaemrys.com and https://www.patreon.com/RuthannaEmrys, and on Bluesky as @r-emrys.