Nicole Kornher-Stace was born in Philadelphia in 1983, moved from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again by the time she was five, and currently lives in New Paltz, NY, with one husband, three ferrets, a brand-new baby boy, and many many books. Her short fiction has appeared in Best American Fantasy, Fantasy Magazine, Ideomancer, Zahir and Rhapsoidia, is forthcoming in Greatest Uncommon Denominator and a yet-to-be-named anthology from Prime, and was nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize. Her first novel, Desideria, is due out in July 2008, also from Prime.