Brenna E. Lorenz is a grandmother with the sense of humor of a ten-year-old boy. A geochemist and retired college professor, she does research in the field of onomastics, plays video games, and writes uncomfortable fiction. She earned her Ph.D. from Memorial University of Newfoundland and taught at a number of academic institutions, including the University of Guam. She has lived in some truly peculiar localities, such as Pensacola, Florida, and Erie, Pennsylvania, places that provide abundant material for dystopian fiction. As a child, she savored the works of Charles Beaumont, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Graves, and developed a passion for odd, scary, humorous, and nauseating narrative. She now lives with her long-suffering husband and cat in a small town in northern Illinois.