Dru Pagliassotti writes steampunk (Clockwork Heart) and horror (An Agreement with Hell) and owns The Harrow Press, which publishes horror fiction anthologies (Midnight Lullabies, Day Terrors, and the upcoming Mortis Operandi). Her stories can be found on Amazon as standalones (Alien Shots: After the Sleep) and in anthologies (Apexology: Horror and Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances). Dru is also a professor at California Lutheran University, where she teaches media studies and, to her colleagues' bemusement, researches boys' love manga (Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre) and male/male romance fiction.