Jeffrey Lyman has been writing for as long as he can remember, typically doorstop epic fantasies that originally didn't go anywhere and just trailed off, to later efforts that actually went somewhere. He has found he has a knack for keeping all the spinning plates aloft until it's time for them to start falling. His short stories have been published a baker's dozen times in several award-winning anthologies, as well as assisting in editing, and he attended the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2004. Professionally, he was published in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, as well as winning Writers of the Future in 2010 (published 2011). After that, he took a hiatus to raise a family. With the boys being fifteen and sixteen now, and more interested in video games than hanging out with Dad, he has once again taken up the pen. He recently published a steampunk novelette in the anthology The Chaos Clock, by eSpec Books, which was delightfully reviewed in Tangent Online.