A native Floridian, C. L. Sidell grew up playing with toads in the rain and indulging in speculative fiction. She holds a master of arts in both English and library & information science, moderates two creative writing groups, and has reviewed books for the Florida Library Youth Program. When she’s not busy working, she’s usually looking for ways to spoil her pets or stopping traffic to rescue animals. She dreams of traveling the world and hopes to someday revisit New Zealand.

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She has received Best of the Net, Pushcart, Dwarf Star, and Rhysling nominations for her work, which appears in 34 Orchard, 50 Haikus, 805 Lit, Apparition Lit, The Cosmic Background, Dark Moments, Diet Milk, The Dread Machine, Dreams and Nightmares, Factor Four Magazine, Frozen Wavelets, Haven Spec, Impossible Worlds, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Martian Magazine, On Spec, Orchid's Lantern, Orion's Belt, The Sprawl Mag, Strange Horizons, Stupefying Stories, Sylvia, Toad Shade Zine, Under Her Eye, Weird Christmas, and others.