Stephen Dedman is the author of the novels "Foreign Bodies" and "The Art of Arrow Cutting". The latter was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Horror Novel. His award-nominated short fiction has appeared in most major genre magazines, including "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov's, " and "SF Age", as well as such highly regarded anthologies as "Little Deaths, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Dreaming Down Under, " and "Centaurus". A collection of his short work, "The Lady of Circumstances", was published in 1999. He lives in Perth, Australia.