Chris Butler was born in Nottingham, England in 1964, graduated with a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Birmingham University, does stuff with computers, and writes fiction. He now lives on the south coast of England, is a member of the Montpelier writing group, and also regularly attends the Milford UK workshop held annually in Wales over a week in late summer. He is the author of the novel Any Time Now, and his short fiction has appeared in magazines such as Asimov’s Science Fiction and Interzone.