Heather Shaw is a writer, editor, sewist, bookkeeper, and lindy hopper living in Berkeley, CA with her husband and 17-year-old son, River. She’s had short fiction published in Strange Horizons, The Year’s Best Fantasy, Escape Pod, PodCastle, and other nice places. She has been the fiction editor at the erotica zine Fishnet, the speculative fiction zine Flytrap, and the pro-SF zine, Persistent Visions. As a family project during lockdown, Heather, Tim, and their son River designed, created, and successfully Kickstarted a tabletop card game called Cyberwreck. She mostly posts on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/sundew.bsky.social) and Facebook (https://facebook.com/hlshaw).