Emily C. Skaftun lives north of Seattle with her husband the mad scientist and two mini-tigers. She is the former editor of The Norwegian American and practices Norwegian by translating comic strips. Her fiction has been published in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, and Clarkesworld, and her first collection, Living Forever & Other Terrible Ideas, is forthcoming from Fairwood Press. In her next life, she hopes to be reincarnated on a sunny, wise planet.