Lynne Jamneck is a transplanted South African who lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Short listed for the Sir Julius Vogel and Lambda Awards, she has published short fiction in various markets, including Fantastique Unfettered, Jabberwocky Magazine, H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction and Spicy Slipstream Stories. For Lethe Press, she edited, selected and introduced the SF anthology, Periphery, which will be re-released early in 2012.Lynne is currently doing an MA in English Literature at the University of Auckland, unlocking the secrets to Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. She is writing her first speculative novel, a conglomerate novel featuring a lost protagonist and a city of secrets.