Becca Mills teaches writing at a U.S. university. She lives with her spouse; two dirty, stinky dogs; and a couple kids she manages to keep nominally cleaner. She admits to being more of a nerd than a geek -- a bird-watcher, a collector of plastic dinosaurs, a scientist wannabee, and the possessor of one rusty and rarely used Ph.D. in Renaissance literature. She's loved fantasy since, at age seven, she listened to her father read Tolkien aloud.