Rachel Swirsky is an author of literary, speculative, and fantasy fiction and poetry, and an editor. She was the founding editor of the PodCastle podcast and was its editor from 2008 to 2010. She was vice president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2013.Swirsky's work has been published in PANK, the Konundrum Engine Literary Review, and the New Haven Review. Her speculative fiction work has appeared in Tor.com, Subterranean Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fantasy Magazine, Interzone, Realms of Fantasy, and Weird Tales, and collected in a variety of year's best anthologies. Her novella "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window" won the 2010 Nebula Award. Her short story "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.