With master’s degrees in English literature and library science, Lyn C. A. Gardner has served as editor at a private maritime museum and cataloger for a public library. Thus far, the author has had stories, poems, art, and articles published in venues like Abyss & Apex, Challenging Destiny, The Doom of Camelot, Doorways Magazine, Horror Garage, The Leading Edge, Legends of the Pendragon, Mythic Delirium, Not One of Us, Raven Electrick, Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic, Star*Line, Strange Horizons, Talebones, and Tales of the Talisman, among others. Two stories and a poem earned honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (12th, 13th, and 15th editions). Gardner is a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, Broad Universe, Mystery Writers of America, and the Virginia Library Association, and is a graduate of the 2004 Clarion West Writers Workshop. For more information, visit www.gardnercastle.com.

Poem:

“The Dispossessed” (Summer 2008)