Donald S. Crankshaw has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, which was more useful for writing fantasy than he had expected, though less helpful for writing science fiction than he had hoped. He has previously published stories in Nature Futures, Daily Science Fiction, and Black Gate.

He and his wife, fellow writer Kristin Janz, currently publish a professional-rate-paying e-zine called Mysterion, which publishes speculative fiction about Christianity. It can be found at www.mysteriononline.com, and has a Patreon page at patreon.com/Mysterion.