Laura Cranehill is an amalgamation of horrific faceless things living in the Pacific Northwest with her spouse and three children. She was born in Michigan where she grew up on a haunted peacock farm, studied writing and neuroscience at UCSD, and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco. She is a writer and poet whose work has been published in Strange Horizons, Vastarien, ergot., [PANK], and multiple award-winning anthologies. Wife Shaped Bodies is her debut novel.