Bios

First person, shorter or longer biographies can be provided upon request.

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Cislyn Smith likes playing pretend, playing games, and playing with words. She calls Madison, Wisconsin her home. She has been known to crochet tentacles, write stories at odd hours, and study stone dead languages. She is occasionally dismayed by the lack of secret passages in her house. Her poems and stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Diabolical Plots, and Mermaids Monthly.

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Cislyn Smith likes playing pretend, playing games, and playing with words. Though she was born on the gulf coast of Florida, she calls Madison, Wisconsin her home now. She shares her home with three very photogenic cats, a variety of cool bacteria, and some nifty humans. She has been known to crochet tentacles, write stories at odd hours, and study stone dead languages. Cislyn is occasionally dismayed by the lack of secret passages in her house, and often inclined to make lists and puns and lists of puns. Her poems and stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Diabolical Plots, and Mermaids Monthly, and other places else-internet. She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise workshop, and a first reader for several genre magazines. When she’s not writing, she spends time behind the scenes at the Dream Foundry, helping emerging creators across the speculative arts to connect with helpful resources and level up their craft. She is co-convention chair for Flights of Foundry, a virtual convention held annually in the spring.

Pronunciation:

Cislyn is pronounced with two syllables, with a slight emphasis on the first syllable. Sihss-lihnn. The sibiliant in the middle is a soft sound rather than a hard one (Sihss-lihnn rather than Sihz-lihnn).

Smith is pronounced to rhyme with ‘with’.

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