Therese Arkenberg has already acquired one of those checkered pasts so many writers seem to possess, having worked at a library, as a cashier in a craft store, as a tutor in logic, and as a volunteer income tax preparer. Currently in Washington D.C., she still has a home in Wisconsin (and winds up in Los Angeles for weekends every few years). Her first short story was accepted for publication on January 2, 2008, and her second acceptance came a few hours later. Since then they haven't always been in such a rush, yet her work appears in places like Beneath Ceaseles Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Crossed Genres Magazine, and the anthology Sword & Sorceress XXIV. Aqua Vitae, her science fiction novella, was released by WolfSinger Publications in December 2011.