The Ape's Wife and Other Stories (37 page)

My thanks to the editors who solicited and bought the tales that first appeared in anthologies and magazines, and to the editors who published reprints; to the many subscribers to
Sirenia Digest
, for they keep the lights on (literally
and
metaphorically); to William K. Schafer of Subterranean Press, who not only published this collection, but who suggested its title (and insisted I write
Black Helicopters
) and is an amazingly patient man; to Vincent Locke for his illustrations and Vincent Chong for his cover; to Kyle Cassidy for the author’s photo; to Merrilee Heifetz and Sarah Nagel at Writers House, saviors, the both of them; to Sonya Taaffe for “The Magdalene of Gévaudan”; to Denise Davis of Brown University for French translation on
Black Helicopters
(8); to Lee Moyer; and to my partner, Kathryn A. Pollnac, who hasn’t yet murdered me in my sleep, though I certainly have it coming.

Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of several novels, including
The Red Tree
(nominated for the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards) and, most recently,
The Drowning Girl: A Memoir
(winner of the Bram Stoker and James Tiptree, Jr. awards, nominated for the Nebula, British Fantasy, Mythopoeic, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy awards). Her tales of the weird, fantastic, and macabre have been collected in several volumes, including
Tales of Pain and Wonder
;
From Weird and Distant Shores
;
To Charles Fort, With Love; Alabaster
;
A is for Alien
;
The Ammonite Violin & Others;
Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart
;
and
Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan (Volume One)
. Her early erotica has been collected in two volumes:
Frog Toes and Tentacles
and
Tales from the Woeful Platypus
. From 1996 to 2001, she scripted
The Dreaming
for DC/Vertigo, and has recently returned to graphic novels with her critically acclaimed series,
Alabaster
(Dark Horse Comics). Trained as a vertebrate paleontologist, her research has appeared in the
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
,
Journal of Paleontology
,
The Mosasaur
, and the
International Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her partner Kathryn and two Siamese cats.