Cecilia Tan has been writing professionally since she was Daron's age in the 1980s. She sold her first fiction in the early 90s, and her short stories have appeared in Nerve, Ms. Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Best American Erotica. She is the award-winning author of over 35 books in many genres, including romance, fantasy, erotica, science fiction, and baseball nonfiction. In 2010 she was inducted into the Saints & Sinners LGBT Writers Hall of Fame.