Silvia Moreno-Garcia was born and raised in Mexico. She now lives in British Columbia with her family and two cats. Her speculative fiction can be found in Fantasy Magazine, Tesseracts Thirteen: Chilling Tales of the Great White North, and Shine: An Antholgy of Optimistic Science-Fiction. She also publishes the zine Innsmouth Free Press. She is deadly afraid of mushrooms. You can follow her on Twitter @silviamg or visit her website.