Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff is the author of the novels MAGIC TIME: ANGELFIRE, THE MERI, TAMINY, THE CRYSTAL ROSE, and THE SPIRIT GATE as well as a slew of short speculative fiction in such magazines as ANALOG, AMAZING STORIES, REALMS OF FANTASY, PARADOX, and INTERZONE. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula and British Science Fiction awards.