***Jalyn Renae Fiske*** *is an English Language Arts teacher in Texas and the Fiction Editor for the speculative fiction magazine* James Gunn's Ad Astra. *She has over a dozen short stories, poems, and personal essays published in anthologies, literary journals, and online magazines. She tends to write dark fantasy and horror. Her favorites that she's written are* Verity's Faery Teas *and* A Grave of Wind and Leaves. *In her free time, Jalyn likes to practice her oil painting, hike trails, camp, and ravenously read.*