Stephanie Kraner is a vaguely humanoid creature living in the Pittsburgh area. By day, she works as a technical writer while simultaneously (and often unsuccessfully) attempting to convince her three cats to be nice to her pit bull mix. Her work has appeared in F&SF and has been awarded second place in the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award contest. You can follow her on Twitter @StephKraner where she unapologetically tweets about her writing and shares what some might call too many pet pics.