Jonathan Edelstein was born in 1971, is married with cat, and lives in Queens. In addition to a previous publication in Escape Pod, his work has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere. His literary heroes include Chinua Achebe, Ursula Le Guin and Bernard Cornwell, and when he isn’t writing, he practices law and hopes someday to get it right.