Carrie Gessner received a BA in English from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. She writes fantasy and science fiction and drinks a lot of tea. Her short stories have appeared online at The Teacup Trail, Freeze Frame Fiction, and The Future Fire as well as in the anthologies Whispers in the Dark, Fall into Fantasy 2018, Gunsmoke & Dragonfire, and Beautiful Lies, Painful Truths. When she's not writing or reading, she likes to go for walks in the park with her greyhound. She's a member of Pennwriters and Broad Universe.