Lisa L. Hannett is a writer of strange, dark fiction. Born and raised in Canada, she now lives in Adelaide, South Australia: city of churches, bizarre murders, and pie-floaters. Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, ChiZine, Shimmer, and Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's Steampunk Reloaded, among other places. Her work has won three Aurealis Awards, and has appeared on Locus's Recommended Reading List as well as in The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror (2010, 2011, 2012), and Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction (2012, 2013).Her first collection of short stories, Bluegrass Symphony, won the 2011 Aurealis Award for Best Collection, and has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.Her first novel, Lament for the Afterlife, is being published by ChiZine Publications in 2015.Midnight and Moonshine (co-authored with Angela Slatter) was published in 2012.