Kristin Janz was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1974. Since then, she has moved across the continent three times, most recently to Boston in 1998. She is married to writer Donald S. Crankshaw and is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in over twenty print and online publications, including Escape Pod, Daily Science Fiction, and On Spec (for a comprehensive list, please visit www.kristinjanz.com). Along with her husband, she is a co-editor and -publisher of online speculative fiction magazine Mysterion (www.mysteriononline.com).