Shannon Page was born on Halloween night and spent her early years on a back-to-the-land commune in northern California. A childhood without television gave her a great love of the written word. At seven, she wrote her first book, an illustrated adventure starring her cat Cleo. Sadly, that story is out of print, but her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Interzone, Fantasy, Black Static, Tor.com, and many anthologies, including Love and Rockets from DAW, Subterranean's Tales of Dark Fantasy 2, Flying Pen Press's Space Tramps: Full Throttle Space Tales #5, and the Australian Shadows Award-winni...