About S.Y. Coffelt

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I've been writing short fiction since the fourth grade. I chose a mermaid as my first main character--even back then, I wrote speculative stories. But when it came time for higher education, I avoided anything remotely creative. Instead, I spent a decade wandering from university to university, earning a BA in philosophy, only to read the classifieds one day and realize my mistake. Today I live on an acreage in Kansas with my husband and tuxedo cat, tending vegetable gardens in spring and summer, and writing dark speculative fiction in all seasons.

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