Ruthanna Emrys

Ruthanna Emrys was born and raised on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, studied cognitive science at Hampshire College, and earned a PhD in cognitive psychology at Stony Brook University; she now lives in the Chesapeake Bay watershed outside Washington, DC. She writes science fiction and fantasy for Strange Horizons, Analog, and Tor.com, and is best known for the Innsmouth Legacy trilogy (The Litany of Earth, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots), which reworks Lovecraft's Deep Ones as sympathetic survivors of genocide rebuilding community.