Karen Osborne is the Nebula, Locus, and Sturgeon Award-nominated author of The Hollow Crown of Heaven, as well as Architects of Memory and Engines of Oblivion. A graduate of the Clarion Writing Workshop, her short fiction appears in Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Fireside, Escape Pod, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and has been selected for LeVar Burton Reads. She lives in upstate New York and can be found online at KarenOsborne.com.