Ian Muneshwar is a Nebula-, Locus-, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated short fiction writer, and a 2022 recipient of the Horror Writers Association's Diversity Grant. His stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Year's Best Weird Fiction, and We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction of 2022. Ian has also taught writing through Brandeis University, Tufts University, and Clarion West's online programming.