Heather McDougal is a writer and educator living in Northern California. She won a Writers of the Future award in 2009 and has been in several anthologies since then. Her story “Talisman” went up at Pseudopod as of July 2011. She attended Viable Paradise in 2007, and has received grants and residencies for her writing. Her blog, Cabinet of Wonders, has been highly praised for its eclectic content.