Erin Kissane is a graduate student in English literature at Queens College, CUNY, and is writing a master's thesis on Hope Mirrlees's Lud-in-the-Mist. Her other academic interests include speculative fiction, big-tent Modernism, children's literature, detective stories, fan culture, and the strange. She is editorial director of web agency Happy Cog Studios, and works with Fourth Story Media on The Amanda Project, a collaborative, interactive mystery series for teen girls, the first book of which is forthcoming from HarperCollins in September, 2009. She lives in New York with two cats and an animator.