(Val Grimm) val.grimm (at) gmail (dot) com dreams of her future, when she will work for a nonprofit fostering social change, get more of her poetry published, and live in a sustainable off-grid house while the flying cars sail by. For now, she is a project manager at a big publishing house, reads voluminously, updates her resume, tries to keep her writing skills exercised, volunteers, and helps make science fiction conventions happen. She also likes doing theatre tech and taking photographs; this one is from Bumpkin Island, in Boston harbor, and was a long exposure taken with an infrared filter.