Benjamin C. Kinney is a neuroscientist, SFF writer, and two-time Hugo award finalist as Assistant Editor of the science fiction magazine Escape Pod. By day he does research in human rehabilitation neuroscience at a major university in St. Louis USA, where he lives with three cats and a spacefaring wife. He no longer creates cyborg monkeys, after too many nights giving them prozac. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines including Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Analog, and many more. You can find him online at benjaminckinney.com or follow him on twitter @BenCKinney.