Gene van Troyer is past editor of "Portland Review" and "Star*Line." His work has appeared widely in science fiction/speculative/experimental journals such as "Poly: New Speculative Writing; Velocities; Last Wave; Amazing Stories; Asimov's SF Magazine; The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry; Snow Monkey, Strange Horizons." He is currently editing with Grania Davis a two-volume collection of Japanese science fiction and fantasy stories in translation for publication in 2007 from Kurodahan Press. He is a native Oregonian transplanted to semi-tropical Okinawa.