Alexandra Sirowy was born and raised in Northern California, where she attended a women's college as an undergraduate and received her MA at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of The Creeping and The Telling.
C. S. E. Cooney launched her voice-acting career narrating short fiction for Podcastle, the world's first audio fantasy magazine. She is a performance poet, singer-songwriter, and fantasy author whose collection Bone Swans has garnered starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Locus Magazine.