Mary Robinette Kowal won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2008 and was nominated for a Hugo Award for her short Evil Robot Monkey. Strange Horizons, Asimov's, and other Year's Best collections have published her short work. Mary is a member of the Board of Directors of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She grew born in North Carolina and spent five years touring nationwide with puppet theatre as a professional puppeteer and voice performer. While residing in Iceland and performing on the hit television show Lazytown, she penned Shades of Milk and Honey. Mary and her husband Rob live in Portland, Oregon, with nine manual typewriters.