Our Lady of the Islands (58 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

S
HANNON
P
AGE
was born on Halloween night and grew up on a commune in northern California’s backwoods, where a childhood without television gave her a great love of the written word. Her work has appeared in numerous venues including
Clarkesworld
,
Interzone
, Tor.com, and the award-winning anthology
Grants Pass
. Her first novel,
Eel River
, was published by Morrigan Books in 2013; in 2015 Per Aspera Press will release
The Queen and The Tower
, the first book in The Nightcraft Quartet. Shannon is a longtime yoga practitioner and an avid gardener, and lives with her husband, Mark Ferrari, in Portland, Oregon. Visit her at
http://www.shannonpage.net
.

J
AY
L
AKE
was a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy, an award-winning editor, a popular raconteur and toastmaster, and an excellent teacher at many writers’ workshops. Jay won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 2004, and was nominated multiple times for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. His other recent books include
Kalimpura
— the final novel in his
Green
cycle — and
Last Plane to Heaven
from Tor, and
Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh
from Prime Books. Following his diagnosis of colon cancer in 2008, Jay became known outside the sf genre for his powerful and brutally honest blogging about the progression of his disease. Jay Lake died on June 1, 2014.