Elizabeth Donald is a writer fond of things that go chomp in the night. She is a three-time winner of the Darrell Award for speculative fiction, author of the Blackfire zombie novel series and numerous short stories, novels and novellas in the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres. She founded the Literary Underworld, an author cooperative helping small-press writers promote and sell their work. By day she is a reporter in the St. Louis region, which provides her with an endless source of material, and writes CultureGeek, a pop-culture column and blog.