Mae Empson has a Master’s degree in English literature from Indiana University at Bloomington, and graduated with honors in English and in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received the Robert B. House Memorial Prize in Poetry in 1995. She lives in Seattle, Washington. Recent publications appear in print in anthologies from Prime Books, Innsmouth Free Press, and Dagan Books, and on-line in The Pedestal Magazine and Cabinet des Fees. Mae Empson is a member of the Horror Writers Association, and of HorrorPNW – the Pacific Northwest chapter of HWA. Follow Mae on twitter at www.twitter.com/maeempson. Read Mae’s blog at http://maeempson.wordpress.com.