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. She has had over 60 short stories appear in venues including Clarkesworld, Fantasy, Weird Tales, Apex, the Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and Imaginarium: Best Canadian Speculative Writing. She has won four Aurealis Awards, including Best Collection for her first book, Bluegrass Symphony, which was also nominated for a World Fantasy Award. Her first novel, Lament for the Afterlife, was published in 2015.