Ashley McConnell is a former Air Force brat now living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the obligatory writer's cats. She has been a technical writer, a security administrator, and a contracting representative, and has published short stories in Women of the West and Final Shadows. She is particularly proud of the fact that like almost anybody else with the normal assortment of body parts, she can hit the side of a barn door with a grenade launcher.