Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the USA Today–bestselling, Compton Crook Award–winning author of the novel The Splinter in the Sky and the novel The King Must Die. Her newest book, the novella This World Is Not Yours, came out this year. She studied organismic and evolutionary biology and astrophysics at Harvard, and is now pursuing a PhD in the Earth & Planetary Sciences department at Stanford. Her short fiction has appeared in Reactor, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, The Sunday Morning Transport, Clarkesworld Magazine, Kaleidotrope, and Luna Station Quarterly. Her work has been featured on the Locus Recommended Reading List and has been reprinted in The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time 3 and Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition.