Marilyn Mattie Brahen is the author of who metaphysical fantasies, Claiming Her and Reforming Hell, plus one "police procedural" (with psychics), Baby Boy Blue, and short stories which have appeared in Crafty Cat Crimes, Dreams of Decadence, The Ultimate Halloween, Tales from the Miskatonic University Library, Weirdbook, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, and elsewhere. Her best short fiction is collected in Seastruck and Other Fantasies. She has also written songs, sings, and plays guitar. She lives in Philadelphia with the requisite two literary cats and her husband, the writer Darrell Schweitzer.