Rachel Ayers lives and writes in Kansas, from whence she hopes to hitch a tornadic ride to adventure in another world. She has a Creative Writing degree from Pittsburg State University. Her story "Job Hunting" won First Prize in the 2010 HarperCollins Radiant Prose contest, and her novelette "Sister and Serpent" won Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. Her blog is at richlayers.livejournal.com. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Isabelle Rose's Twisted Fairy Tale Anthology volumes 1 and 2 (Wicked East Press), Living With the Dead: Year One, and Enchanted Conversation.