C.S. MacCath is a writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry whose work has appeared in STRANGE HORIZONS, CLOCKWORK PHOENIX: TALES OF BEAUTY AND STRANGENESS, MYTHIC DELIRIUM, MURKY DEPTHS and other publications. Her poetry has been nominated twice for the Rhysling Award, while her fiction has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and shortlisted for the Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award. Ceallaigh's first collection of fiction and poetry entitled THE RUIN OF BELTANY RING has been called 'wonderful, thoroughly engaging, always amazing', a book of 'tiny marvels' and 'well-worth reading'. At present, she's working on a science fiction series entitled PETALS OF THE TWENTY THOUSAND BLOSSOM and a second collection of fiction and poetry.