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.

They've been published in the Tesseracts anthology series, and their works include the White Changeling series, The Kitten Psychologist series, and the interactive short story The Tree and the Grave. Thea's website is theavandiepen.com, and they can be contacted via that site, in English or French. If you do contact them in French, though, please don’t ask them to count in it as they tend to skip numbers ending in six entirely by accident.