J.A. Prentice (he/they) was born in Surrey in the United Kingdom, grew up and attended college in the California Bay Area, and  currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with their family and three cats. His other stories have been published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Wyngraf, amongst others. They are also the writer of the Doctor Who spin-off audio drama episode “The Undying Truth” from Big Finish Productions. He’s currently active on Tumblr as livingauthorssociety and on BlueSky as @japrenticewrites.bsky.social and posts occasionally on https://livingauthorssociety.wordpress.com/. When he was five years old, he was bitten by a monkey, which remains the most interesting thing that’s ever happened to him.