Holly Wade Matter's short fiction has appeared in Black Cat Weekly, Asimov's Science Fiction, Century, and the Bending the Landscape anthology series. She is a graduate of the University of Washington and of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. She has twice been awarded literary funding from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and received a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Seattle with her husband Brad and a terribly sassy house rabbit.