Bio: William Shunn was born in Los Angeles in 1967 and raised in Utah. Since his first publication in 1993, his stories have appeared in Salon, F&SF, Science Fiction Age, Realms of Fantasy, Electric Velocipede, Storyteller, and elsewhere. His novelette "Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites" was nominated for the 2001 Nebula Award. He has served for three years as a national juror for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. He also works as a software developer, and on September 11, 2001, he created what may have been the first online "survivor registry," where people in affected cities could let friends and loved ones know they were okay. Since 1995 he has lived in New York City. He and his wife Laura were married in 2001 on the Travel Channel series "Two for Las Vegas." He is currently working on a novel, and on a memoir of his youth as a Mormon missionary. His novella "Inclination" appears in the April/May 2006 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.