Shweta Narayan was born in India, has lived in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Scotland, and California, and feels kinship with shapeshifters and other liminal beings. Their short fiction and poetry have appeared in places like Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and the 2012 Nebula Showcase anthology. Shweta was a recipient of the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship. They’ve been mostly dead since 2010 but have a few stories in the works again and are trying not to do an Orpheus and look back.