Jennifer Pelland is primarily known for her short fiction. Her first Nebula nomination was in 2008 for "Captive Girl," originally published in Helix, and this year she was nominated again for "Ghosts of New York," which was published in the Dark Faith anthology (ed. Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, Apex Publications, 2010). Later this year, her first novel, Machine, will be released by Apex Publications. Jennifer's short stories have also appeared in magazines such as Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, Pod Castle, and Electric Velocipede, and the anthologies Close Encounters of the Urban Kind (ed. Jennifer Brozek, Apex Publications, 2010), Dark Futures: Tales of Dystopic SF (ed. Jason Sizemore, Dark Quest, 2010), The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Three (Solaris, 2009), and Aegri Somnia (ed. Jason Sizemore, Apex Publications, 2006). Many of her stories are collected in Unwelcome Bodies (Apex Publications, 2008).

Jennifer lives in the Boston area with an Andy and three cats. The rest of her copious spare time is taken up with a day job, belly dancing, and the occasional foray into amateur radio theater. To read Jennifer's complete bibliography, or to peruse her blog, go to www.jenniferpelland.com