Charlie Jane Anders is the author of All the Birds in the Sky, which won the Nebula, Locus, and Crawford Awards. Her short fiction has appeared in Wired Magazine, Tor.com, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Tin House, ZYZZYVA, The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes, and elsewhere, and her story, “Six Months Three Days,” won a Hugo Award. She runs the long-running Writers With Drinks reading series in San Francisco and used to spout off onio9.com. She won the Emperor Norton Award for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.”