SETH DICKINSON's short fiction has appeared in "Analog", "Asimov's", "Clarkesworld", "Lightspeed", "Strange Horizons", "Beneath Ceaseless Skies, " among others. He is an instructor at the Alpha Workshop for Young Writers, winner of the 2011 Dell Magazines Award, and a lapsed student of social neuroscience. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. "The Traitor Baru Cormorant" is his first novel.