Lisa Smedman is the author of the New York Times–bestselling fourth novel in the War of the Spider Queen series, Extinction, as well as a novel in the Lady Penitent series and five Shadowrun novels. She was one of seven authors selected by TSR/WOTC to write a short story and novel for The Halls of Stormweather, an anthology set in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms universe. She has also had a number of short science fiction and fantasy stories published in various magazines and anthologies. She lives in British Columbia, Canada.