About the Author

American-born author Laura E. Goodin has been writing since childhood, and has at various times made a living as a reporter, editor, public-relations writer, media manager, technical writer, trainer, web-content developer and freelance writer. She attended the 2007 Clarion South workshop, and holds a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Western Australia; her academic research looks at the idea of genre tropes and the boundaries between genres in popular fiction. Her novels After the Bloodwood Staff and Mud and Glass are available from Odyssey Books. Her stories have appeared in numerous publications, including the Review of Australian Fiction, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Adbusters, Wet Ink, The Lifted Brow, and Daily Science Fiction, among others, and in several anthologies. Her plays and libretti have been performed on three continents, and her poetry has been performed internationally, both as spoken word and as texts for new musical compositions. She teaches creative writing at Deakin University and in workshops internationally and online. She lives in Melbourne, Victoria with her husband, composer Houston Dunleavy.