Kim Lakin-Smith is the author of Tourniquet; Tales from the Renegade City (Immanion Press: 2007) and Cyber Circus (Newcon Press: 2011). Her fantasy and science fiction short stories have appeared in Black Static, Interzone, Celebration, Myth-Understandings, Further Conflicts, Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse, and other magazines and anthologies. Kim is a regular guest speaker at writing workshops and conventions.