A.M. DELLAMONICA is the author of Indigo Springs, which won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy, Sci-Fiction and Strange Horizons, and in numerous anthologies; her 2005 alternate-history Joan of Arc story, "A Key to the Illuminated Heretic," was shortlisted for the Sideways Award and the Nebula Award. Dellamonica lives in Toronto, Ontario.