ANDREW JOHNSTON grew up in a west Kansas town just large enough to make a map. After four wasted years in the University of Kansas, he took a teaching position in the People's Republic of China, beginning a decade-long nomadic period with several trans-Pacific jaunts. He has written eight novels and over seventy short stories and poems, some of which even managed to get published in the likes of Nature: Futures, Mythic and The Arcanist. He is currently based out of Hefei, Anhui Province.