Fiery Deeps: Ten Stories of Underground Caverns, Fantastic Technology, and Feminine Power

J. S. Fields is a scientist who has perhaps spent too much time around organic solvents. They enjoy roller derby, woodturning, making chainmail by hand, and cultivating fungi in the backs of minivans. Nonbinary, and yes, it matters. Fields has lived in Thailand, Ireland, Canada, the United States, and spent extensive time in many more places. Their current research takes them to the Peruvian Amazon rainforest each summer, where they traumatize students with machetes and tangarana ants while looking for rare pigmenting fungi. They live with their partner and child, and a very fabulous lionhead rabbit named Merlin.

Heather Tracy is coeditor of Distant Gardens: Ten Stories of Exploration, Biodiversity, and Found Family and Farther Reefs: Ten Stories of Ocean Adventure, New Relationships, and Nautical Mystery (with J. S. Fields), and The World of Juno (with William C. Tracy).