Luc Reid is an expert at making stuff up. He's a past winner of the Writers of the Future contest, whose first book, Talk the Talk: The Slang of 65 American Subcultures, was released by Writer's Digest Books in 2006. His short fiction has appeared in Writers of the Future XIX and XX (ed. Algis Budrys), Abyss & Apex, and Lenox Avenue. Luc lives with his son in northern Vermont, where Reids have lived for five generations.