Elsa Sjunneson, four-time Hugo Award finalist, is a deafblind speculative fiction writer living in Seattle, Washington. Her work has been praised as "eloquence and activism" in lockstep, and can be found all over the internet. Elsa writes and edits speculative fiction and nonfiction. She has been a finalist for the Best Fan Writer and Best Semiprozine Hugo Awards, a winner of the D. Franklin Defying Doomsday Award, and a finalist for the Best Game Writing Nebula Award.