Sonya Taaffe has a confirmed addiction to myth, folklore, and dead languages. Poems and short stories of hers have been published in such magazines as Not One of Us, Sirenia Digest, Mythic Delirium, Strange Horizons, Lone Star Stories, Goblin Fruit, Alchemy, Sybil's Garage, Cabinet des Fées, Flytrap, Say… , and the anthologies Mercy of Tides (ed. Margot Wizansky), TEL: Stories (ed. Jay Lake), Mythic (ed. Mike Allen), and Jabberwocky (ed. Sean Wallace); shortlisted for the 2004 SLF Fountain Award and 2008 Dwarf Stars Award; nominated yearly since 2003 for the Rhysling Award; and reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 21st Annual Collection (eds. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant), The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase (eds. Roger Dutcher and Mike Allen), The Best of Not One of Us (ed. John Benson), Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2006 (ed. Rich Horton), Best New Fantasy (ed. Sean Wallace), Best New Romantic Fantasy 2 (ed. Paula Guran), You Have Time for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories (eds. Mark Budman and Tom Hazuka), and Best American Flash Fiction of the 21^st Century (eds. Tom Hazuka and Mark Budman). A respectable amount of this work can be found in Postcards from the Province of Hyphens and Singing Innocence and Experience (Prime Books, 2005), including her Rhysling-winning poem "Matlacihuatl's Gift." Her poem "Postscripts from the Red Sea" was recently published in a limited handbound edition by Papaveria Press. She holds master's degrees in Classics from Brandeis and Yale. Most recently, she named a Kuiper belt object.