Tina Connolly is a writer and face-painter in Portland, Oregon, where she lives with a husband and a cat. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons and Escape Pod and the anthologies Escape Clause and Unplugged: Best Online SF 2008. She is also the author of "The God-Death of Halla" in BCS #5 and Audio Fiction Podcast BCS 008.  She has a website at http://tinaconnolly.com.