Scott Edelman has published nearly 100 short stories in magazines such as Analog, PostScripts, The Twilight Zone, and Dark Discoveries, and in anthologies such as The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three, Crossroads: Southern Tales of the Fantastic, Once Upon a Galaxy, Moon Shots, Mars Probes, and Forbidden Planets. His collection of zombie fiction What Will Come After was a finalist for both the Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. His science fiction short fiction has been collected in What We Still Talk About. He is also the author of the Lambda Award-nominated novel The Gift. He has been a Bram Stoker Award finalist eight times, in the categories of Short Story and Long Fiction.