Jude McLaughlin is an author of speculative fiction web serials, novels, and short fiction. Raised in a town in Delaware whose name no two people pronounce the same way, they now live and write in a town in Massachusetts whose name no one from out of state can pronounce. In addition to their fiction writing, they are a technical, medical, and science writer and their work has been known to appear in the occasional tabletop roleplaying game book and videogame. They live with furry overlords and their wife in a large old house with enough character to populate its own series of novels.