Cynthia Ward has published stories in Analog, Asimov’s, Nightmare, Weird Tales, and elsewhere. She is the editor of Lost Trails: Forgotten Tales of the Weird West: Volumes 1-2 and a coeditor of Weird Trails. With Nisi Shawl, she co-created Writing the Other, which received the Locus Special Award in 2020. The Adventure of the Golden Woman (Aqueduct Press) concludes Cynthia’s Blood-Thirsty Agent series. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is not working on a screenplay.