Catherine H. Shaffer is a writer and biotech journalist living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has published short fiction in a number of magazines and anthologies, particularly Analog Science Fiction and Fact. A biochemist by training, she reports daily news in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry for BioWorld Today, and enjoys yoga and communing with her four cats and two English mastiffs in her spare time. She attended the Clarion workshop in 1997, and has been writing and publishing science fiction and fantasy ever since. Catherine maintains an infrequent blog at soshiny.netwhere you can keep up with adventures such as a cross country road trip in a 40-year-old Airstream trailer and surviving a major home renovation with sanity (mostly) intact.