Christopher Barzak recently returned to the United States after living and working abroad in Japan for the past two years. His short stories have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, like Nerve, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martins), Trampoline (Small Beer Press), Strange Horizons, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, The Third Alternative, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Caroll and Graf), and Realms of Fantasy. His first novel, One for Sorrow, will be published by Bantam Spectra. Recently he completed his second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing. This year he was the recipient of The Speculative Literature Foundation's Travel Grant for Writers, which he used in order to visit Kyoto. New stories by Christopher will be appearing in Twenty Epics (eds. Moles and Groppi, Wheatland Press, 2006), Salon Fantastique (eds. Datlow and Windling, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006), Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (eds. Datlow and Windling, Viking, 2007), and So Fey: Queer Faery Fictions (ed. Berman, Haworth Press, 2007). For the moment, Christopher has returned to his hometown in rural Ohio.