EMILY A. DUNCAN is the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Saints, Ruthless Gods, and Blessed Monsters. They work as a youth services librarian and received a Master's degree in library science from Kent State University, which mostly taught them how to find obscure Slavic folklore texts through interlibrary loan systems. When not reading or writing, they enjoy playing copious amounts of video games and dungeons and dragons. They live in Ohio.