Wen Spencer is the 2003 John Campbell Award winner and author of ten novels, the most recent being Eight Million Gods. Born and raised in land–locked Pittsburgh, she currently lives in the middle of Pacific Ocean on the Big Island of Hawaii. It is a fact that constantly boggles her mind. All those maps of the United States lie; Hawaii is nowhere near California! While she is within sight of the world’s most active volcano, she feels safe from any zombie incursion from the mainland.