Elyse Rudemiller (she/her) holds an MFA in fiction from North Carolina State University. She is an avid reader and writer of speculative fiction and is currently polishing the first novel of a witchy trilogy. She has taught First-Year Writing at NC State as well as creative writing at theYoung Writers Workshop. Some of her favorite authors include Susanna Clarke, Octavia Butler, TJ Klune, Helen Oyeyemi, Becky Chambers, Robin McKinley, and Madeline Miller. Elyse has lived in six states and two countries and has a special love of community-based writing groups, having been a member of local groups in many of those places. She is now settled in Raleigh, NC with her husband, Kyle, and the idea that one day—maybe even soon—they’ll get a dog.