Ysabeau S. Wilce was trained as a military historian and turned to fiction when the truth no longer compared favorably to the shining lies of her imagination. This capitulation resulted in various writings about the Republic of Califa and its inhabitants, some of which have been published in Asimov’s Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Flora Segunda is her first novel.

She lives with a cheese-swilling financier and a dog (not red) in Chicago, Illinois. They do not have a Butler.