K.M. Szpara is a queer and trans author whose short fiction and essays appear in Uncanny, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and more. He is a graduate of the Viable Paradise workshop and the editor of Transcendent: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction (Lethe Press), which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Kellan lives in Baltimore, MD, with a miniature guard-poodle. He has a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, which he totally uses at his day job as a paralegal. You can find him online at http://kmszpara.com or on Twitter at @kmszpara.