Brief Author Bio:

A.M. Dellamonica, author of "The Town on Blighted Sea," (a YEAR'S BEST Science Fiction pick) and numerous other SF and fantasy stories, has published fiction in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, SciFi.Com's SciFiction, and Strange Horizons, as well anthologies including the upcoming PASSING FOR HUMAN, edited by Steve Utley and Michael Bishop. Her first novel, INDIGO SPRINGS, will be in bookstores in November 2009; she has also recently been awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Grant for a 2005 NANOWRIMO book, THE WINTERGIRLS. Dellamonica's web site is at www.alyxdellamonica.com. She teaches writing through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. (www.uclaextension.edu).