Michelle Hartz is a living human currently residing in Bloomington, Indiana, with her living husband, two living cats, a living turtle, and two fish (animation state of the fish is unknown, they are thought to be differently animated). (In fact, sometimes we wonder about the turtle too.) (Now that I'm thinking of it, I don't know which lives the cats are on, they must have lost a couple of their nine lives in there somewhere.) She spends her nights hanging around with zombies, monsters, vampires, ghosts, drag queens, martini drinkers, belly dancers, and worst of all, fellow writers. She gives