Laura Gayle is the nom de plume of two friends who love to collaborate.Shannon Page was born on Halloween night and raised without television on a back-to-the-land commune in north...view moreLaura Gayle is the nom de plume of two friends who love to collaborate.Shannon Page was born on Halloween night and raised without television on a back-to-the-land commune in northern California. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Interzone, Fantasy, Black Static, Tor.com, and many anthologies. Books include the contemporary fantasy series The Nightcraft Quartet; fiction collection Eastlick and Other Stories; personal essay collection I Was a Trophy Wife; hippie horror novel Eel River; cozy mystery series the Chameleon Chronicles, co-written with Karen G. Berry; and Our Lady of the Islands, co-written with the late Jay Lake, as well as a forthcoming sequel co-written with Mark J. Ferrari. Her many editing credits include the essay collection The Usual Path to Publication and the anthologies Witches, Stitches & Bitches and Black-Eyed Peas on New Year’s Day: An Anthology of Hope. Shannon is a longtime yoga practitioner, has no tattoos (but she did recently get a television), and lives on lovely, remote Orcas Island, Washington, with her husband, author and illustrator Mark Ferrari. Visit her at www.shannonpage.net.Karen G. Berry has lived in or near Portland, Oregon, for forty years, but remains solidly Midwestern in outlook and recipes, which is why you never find any of hers in the recipe sections of the Chameleon Chronicles. She has one wonderful husband, three wonderful daughters, two wonderful grandsons, and several thousand books. A marketing writer by day, Karen is a prize-winning poet and has published seven novels and one nonfiction book, Shopping at the Used Man Store. As a committed underachiever, Karen finds all of this fairly amazing. Visit her at www.karengberry.mywriting.network/.view less