After meeting Ursula K. LeGuin in the basement of the Elliott Bay Book Company, Madeline Ashby decided to start writing science fiction stories. While immigrating to Canada from the United States in 2006, she could not work or study and joined the Cecil Street Irregulars - a genre writers' workshop founded by Judith Merril - instead. Since then she has been published in
Tesseracts, Flurb, Nature, Escape Pod and elsewhere. She has a master's degree in Manga and Anime and writes on such matters for
i09,
Tor.com and
BoingBoing. Currently she works as a strategic foresight consultant in Toronto.
www.madelineashby.com
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Author hometown: Toronto