Kristina Ten’s stories appear in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, McSweeney’s, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Uncanny, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the McSweeney’s Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, a Locus Award finalist, and a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop and the University of Colorado Boulder’s MFA program in creative writing. Born in Moscow, she has lived most of her life in the U.S. Read more at kristinaten.com.