A.M. DELLAMONICA is the author of "Indigo Springs", which won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Her short fiction has appeared in "Asimov s", "Realms of Fantasy", "Sci-Fiction" and "Strange Horizons", and in numerous anthologies; her 2005 alternate-history Joan of Arc story, A Key to the Illuminated Heretic, was shortlisted for the Sideways Award and the Nebula Award. Dellamonica lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.