A. Merc Rustad is a queer transmasculine non-binary writer and filmmaker who likes dinosaurs, robots, monsters, and cookies. Their fiction has appeared in nifty places like Lightspeed, Cicada, Escape Pod, Fireside, IGMS, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Online, Apex, Shimmer, and others. How To Become A Robot In 12 Easy Steps was included in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (ed. by Joe Hill and John Joseph Adams).