TIM PRATT is the author of the Pathfinder Tales novels City of the Fallen Sky, Liar's Blade, and Liar's Island , as well as several Pathfinder short stories available for free at paizo.com/pathfindertales. His creator-owned stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror , and other nice places, and he is the author of three story collections, most recently Antiquities and Tangibles , as well as a poetry collection. He has also written several novels, including contemporary fantasies The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, Briarpatch, Heirs of Grace , and The Deep Woods ; the Forgotten Realms novel Venom in Her Veins ; the gonzo historical steampunk novel The Constantine Affliction (under the name T. Aaron Payton); and, as T.A. Pratt, eight books in the urban fantasy series about ass-kicking sorcerer Marla Mason: Blood Engines, Poison Sleep, Dead Reign, Spell Games, Broken Mirrors, Grim Tides, Bride of Death , and prequel Bone Shop . He edited the anthology Sympathy for the Devil , and co-edited the Rags & Bones anthology with Melissa Marr.

He has won a Hugo Award for best short story, a Rhysling Award for best speculative poetry, and an Emperor Norton award for best San Francisco Bay Area-related novel. His books and stories have been nominated for Nebula, Mythopoeic, World Fantasy, and Stoker Awards, among others, and have been translated into numerous languages. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Heather Shaw and son River, and works as a senior editor and occasional book reviewer at Locus , the Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field. He blogs intermittently at www.timpratt.org.