Fritz Bogott (fritzbogott.com, @fritzbogott) was born in Berkeley, California and grew up reading novels and writing code in Austin, Minnesota, the birthplace of Spam. After studying math, German and Chinese at a weirdly long list of American and Taiwanese colleges and universities (he met illustrator Mozhidian in Taipei in 1990), he worked as an engineer in Scotland, Ethiopia, Singapore and Chile and helped start the company GovDelivery. He is the author of the CC-licensed novels BOGGLE AND SNEAK (Paper copies in bookstores, electronic copies at http://fritzbogott.com/boggleandsneak) and PISMO (Electronic copies at http://fritzbogott.com/pismo). His stories have been published in Kek-W Quarterly, Startling Adventures, Weaponizer, Jack Move and Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure. He builds giant flaming things in Northfield, Minnesota with his wife and daughters.