Who is Laura J. Underwood and why does she keep writing these strange stories about bubbas and braw warriors and young wizards? Was she frightened by her fictitious cousin Jimmy Bob using a flamethrower to light his cigarette? Was she kidnapped by hillbilly fairies and driven insane listening to their hoedown music, or did someone liposuction out her soul and replace it with that of some scurrilous beer-belching bard? Whatever the case, she has seen the publication of several fantasy novels, a number of novellas, a multitude of short stories and who knows how many pieces of nonfiction in various pages of tomes and magazines such as the Bubbas of the Apocalypse anthologies, the Sword and Sorceress anthologies, Adventures in Sword and Sorcery Magazine and Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine--to name a few. She is the author of Dragon's Tongue, Hounds of Ardagh, Ard Magister, Chronicles of the Last War, and several short story collections. Her latest works include the novella The City Under the Bridge from Wolfsinger Publications, That Time of the Month, in Esther Friesner's Strip Mauled, and another story Bella and the Flying Lugosi in Esther Friesner's Fangs for the Mammaries (due out from Baen later this year.) When not writing, she draws, works in a library out in the boonies, and occasionally plays with sharp pointed objects just for fun. She shares her East Tennessee home with a cat of Few Grey Cells and Parental Units of great age. Her website can be found at www.sff.net/people/keltora