Kristina Ten’s stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Nightmare, Fantasy, Split Lip, Passages North, Weird Horror, and elsewhere, and are forthcoming in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction. She is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop and the University of Colorado Boulder’s MFA program in Creative Writing. Born in Moscow, she has lived most of her life in the U.S., in the company of mischievous dogs, melodramatic plants, and bookshelves full of fairy tales.