Gwendolyn Kiste is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, and the dark fantasy novella, Pretty Marys All in a Row. Her short fiction has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Shimmer, Black Static, Daily Science Fiction, Interzone, LampLight, and Three-Lobed Burning Eye, among others. Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, two cats, and not nearly enough ghosts.