Amy R. Wethington is a Professor Emeritus of Biology and snail expert. She lives in the house she helped build as a teenager in Pauline, SC with her husband and four cats. She enjoys writing science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy and is a member of several writing groups: in person and online. Her short story “Baba Yaga and the Water of Life” is published in Haunted Words Press Issue Six: Ghoulish Grimoires. She drew on her knowledge of bird behavior to craft her short story “Thunderbirds, Kraken, and Other Dangers to Dragon Reproduction” which was published in Androids and Dragons on April 1 . She is the current Contest Coordinator [for 2024] and former President [2018-2021] of the Southeastern Writers Association, and an active member of Wulf Moon’s Wulfpack, Scot Noel’s Dreamcasters, and Apex writers.