About the author

Thea van Diepen

Thea van Diepen spent the first ten years of their life on a tree-wrapped acreage where an inquisitive child might believe in magic. Nowadays, they live in a small city in Alberta, breathing life into characters and worlds and the stories those tell.<br><br>They've been published in the Tesseracts anthology series, and their works include the White Changeling series, The Kitten Psychologist series,&nbsp;and the interactive short story <em>The Tree and the Grave.</em> Thea's&nbsp;website is theavandiepen.com, and they can be contacted via that site, in English or French. If you do contact them&nbsp;in French, though, please don’t ask them&nbsp;to count in it as they tend&nbsp;to skip numbers ending in six entirely by accident.