Lara Elena Donnelly is a graduate of the Alpha and Clarion workshops, whose short fiction and poetry has appeared in Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, Nightmare, and Uncanny, among other venues. Her debut novel, Amberlough, is a finalist for the Nebula and Lambda awards and the first book in the three-part Amberlough Dossier. Book two, Armistice, comes out on May 15, 2018. Born and raised in small town Ohio, Lara passed a formative three years in Louisville before fetching up in New York. She lives in Harlem, with two loud radiators and a whistling screenwriter.