Sharon Shinn is a journalist who works for a trade magazine called Decor. Her novels include The Shape-Changer's Wife and the Samaria Trilogy: Archangel, Jovah's Angel and The Alleluia Files. She is the winner of the William Crawford Award for Achievement in Fantasy, and was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, and has lived in the midwest most of her life.