A. M. Dellamonica, author of A Slow Day at the Gallery (a Year’s Best SF pick) and numerous other SF and fantasy stories, has published fiction in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, SciFi.Com’s SciFiction, and Strange Horizons, as well as anthologies including the upcoming Passing for Human, edited by Steve Utley and Michael Bishop. A 2006 Canada Council Grant recipient for her current work in progress, The Wintergirls, she teaches writing through the UCLA Extension Writers’ program and writes book reviews for Science Fiction Weekly.