Hailey Piper is the author of The Worm and His Kings, Queen of Teeth, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, and other books of horror. She is an active member of the HWA, with over seventy short stories appearing in Vastarien, Pseudopod, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere. A trans woman hailing from the haunted woods of New York, she now lives with her wife in Maryland, where their paranormal research is classified.