Natalie Ironside was born in Mississippi in the early 1990s and is still getting over it. Throughout an eventful and poorly-thought-out life, she has been a soldier, a union thug, and a scientist in addition to being an author of award-winning dystopian speculative fiction. When she's not busy writing, she can be found reading Medieval poetry, playing Fallout: New Vegas for the millionth time, and hiding from the looming apocalypse. She lives in Florida.