Sarah Pinsker’s short fiction has won the Nebula & Sturgeon Awards, and she’s been a finalist for the Hugo twice, the Nebula seven times (including for this story) and numerous other awards. Small Beer Press published her first collection, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, in March 2019, and her first novel, A Song For a New Day, will be published by Berkley in September 2019. She’s also a singer/songwriter with three albums on various indie labels and a fourth on the way. She lives with her wife and dog in Baltimore, Maryland.