Sylvia Kelso lives in North Queensland, Australia. She writes fantasy and SF often set in analogue or alternate Australian settings. She has published six high fantasy novels, two of which, *Amberlight* and *The Moving Water*, were finalists for best fantasy novel of the year in the Australian Aurealis genre fiction awards. The third Amberlight novel, *Source*, was released in 2010. Her most recent novel-length work is the contemporary fantasy duo of Blackston Gold, *The Solitaire Ghost* and *The Time Seam* released by Fivestar Books in 2011. Sylvia Kelso's short fiction has appeared in Australian and US anthologies, including *Love and Rockets* from DAW in 2010 and *Beyond Grimm: Tales Newly Twisted* from Bookview Cafe in 2012. Her short story "The Honor of the Ferrocarril" in *Gears and Levers 3* was released in June 2013 by Skywarriors Books, and "Spring in Geneva," a novella-length riff on *Frankenstein*, from Aqueduct Press in October 2013. "The Price of Kush" for the US anthology *Griots: Sisters of the Spear* was released as an ebook in December 2013. Her most recent short story release is "Crow" in the Spring Equinox 2014 issue of *Eternal Haunted Summer* e-zine.http://www.sylviakelso.com.