A.M. Dellamonica's previous Tor.com story, "The Cage," made the Locus Recommended Reading List in 2010. She has published fiction in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Strange Horizons and over thirty other magazines and anthologies. Her first novel, urban fantasy Indigo Springs, won the 2010 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic; a sequel, Blue Magic, will be released by Tor in 2012. A resident of Vancouver, British Columbia, Dellamonica's home online is at www.alyxdellamonica.com. She teaches writing through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. (www.uclaextension.edu).