Jonathan Edelstein was born in 1971, is married with cat, and lives in New York City.  His work has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and elsewhere. He counts Ursula Le Guin, Bernard Cornwell, Chinua Achebe and Charles R. Saunders among his literary heroes, and when he isn’t writing, he practices law and hopes someday to get it right.