Cara Masten DiGirolamo is a former trumpet player and current MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia. She is a queer writer and artist, an amateur bookbinder, and an instructor in the secret art of Turkish paper marbling. With a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University, she is renowned in some circles for DiGirolamo 2012, an article on the phonology of fandom pairing names, and not at all renowned for her expertise on Middle Welsh pronouns. Her short fiction appears in venues such as Daily Science Fiction, Cast of Wonders, and Newmyths.com, and is forthcoming at Fantasy Magazine.