Kristina Ten's stories appear in Lightspeed, Fantasy, Split Lip, Diabolical Plots, Flash Fiction Online, Weird Horror, and elsewhere. Her work has been a finalist for the WSFA Small Press Award, longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50, and nominated for Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, and the Pushcart Prize. Kristina is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop and a current MFA candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she teaches creative writing and serves as prose editor of TIMBER. Born in Moscow, she has lived most of her life in the United States.