Aliette de Bodard is a fantasy writer who moonlights as a student in Applied Maths (a cunning way to hide her taste for mythology and fairy tales). Her publications include works in Deep Magic (feb 2006), Shimmer, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and Fantastical Visions IV. She was also a semifinalist in the Writers of the Future Contest. Her first language is actually French, but she decided after a two-year stay in London that English was more fun to write. It seems to be working so far.