Terry McGarry is the author of the Tor fantasy novels Illumination (one of Library Journal's Five Best Genre Titles of 2001), The Binder's Road, and Triad, and a variety of short fiction; her genre poetry is collected in the award-winning chapbook Imprinting, and her works have been translated into German, Spanish, Finnish, Italian, and Russian. She has been a freelance book copyeditor since 1987, specializing in sf and fantasy, and she worked at The New Yorker for fifteen years, the last six as a Page O.K.'er. She has also been a bartender on Wall Street, an English major at Princeton, a street trader in Ireland; she has trained in Krav Maga and Western martial arts, and plays Irish traditional music at gigs and pub sessions.