H.E. Roulo is a Pacific Northwest writer of science-fiction, horror, and fantasy. She earned a BA in English from the University of Idaho. The first book in her Plague Masters trilogy is expected to be released from Permuted Press mid-2015.Her short stories have appeared in over a dozen magazines, anthologies, and podcasts. Recent publications include Fantasy Magazine (Women Destroy Fantasy special issue), Nature Futures 2, Blood Type: An Anthology of Vampire SF on the Cutting Edge, Nature, and InfectiveInk.The serialized podcast release of her novel Fractured Horizon was a finalist for the 2009 Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction Story (novel). Her podcast horror story "Graveyard Shift" won the Wicked Women Writers Challenge 2009 and appears in The Wickeds: A Wicked Women Writers Anthology (Volume 1) which came out in May 2012. She co-hosted Podioracket.com from 2009 to 2012.Recent appearances include Baycon in 2013 and Rustycon in 2014.She continues to podcast, interview authors, and make a fuss on twitter as @hroulo. Find out more at heroulo.com