Cassandra Phillips-Sears's short fiction has appeared in volume 2 of Jabberwocky (Prime Books, 2006) and A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (Two Cranes Press, 2008). Other work has appeared in Not One of Us, Scheherezade's Bequest, and Place/Time. She is also a member of the SFPA. Her website is www.akrasiac.org/eredien/index.html.

She lives near Boston with fiancée and fellow program participant Rachel Dillon, who blames credits Cassandra for getting her back into speculative fiction. They have two cats.