Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito is a writer, judge, and mother. When she’s not spending time with her family outdoors in the Pacific Northwest, she’s crafting stories in horror, sci-fi, fantasy, or whatever genre-bending she can get away with. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Nailed Magazine, Red Penguin Collections, Buckman Journal, Flame Tree Press’s Asian Ghost Stories, Strangehouse’s Chromophobia, Weirdbook of Startling Stories, Not a Pipe’s Stories Within, and Black Spot Book’s Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror. She also co-chairs the Young Willamette Writers PDX program that provides free writing classes for high school and middle school students.