SUSAN FOREST is the author of dual Aurora Award-winners Bursts of Fire (2019) and Flights of Marigold (2020) as well as over 25 internationally published short stories (Analog, Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies). She edits an award-winning Laksa Anthology Series: Speculative Fiction anthologies for Laksa Media Groups, was Editor Guest of Honor at Keycon in 2022, and most recently co-edit Life Beyond Us: An Original Anthology of SF Stories and Science Essays (European Astrobiology Institute Presents). Susan loves travel and has been knows to dictate novels from the back of her husband's motorcycle.