Born at the tail end of the 1960's, A.M. Dellamonica had the kind of action-packed childhood most people dream of, featuring actual plane crashes and the occasional really long car trip. After catching her first fish and writing her first novel--both at the age of six--she determined she was ready to fend for herself in the wild. As chance would have it, though, it took eleven more years to pack up all her books.

In college, Alyx learned that people would pay her for acting even though she was terrible at it. Lack of talent as a live performer did not keep her from spending two seasons with a repertory theatre company and a third dressed as a man, playing a Civil War-era whiskey trader at Fort Whoop-Up. There she acquired many important life skills, including the ability to play Camptown Races on the harmonica. Through all these adventures she continued to write, making her first fiction sale to a literary magazine called Secrets from the Orange Couch.

In 1989 she shed her trader's masculine garb and headed off to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. After an unfortunate spill into the men's room and a soaking during the obligatory RHPS water fight, she was successfully married to a woman named Kelly Robson. The marriage was recognized by the Province of British Columbia in 2003, and their family also includes two cats named Rumble and Minnow.

Alyx sings in the Vancouver Lesbian and Gay Choir and A Vancouver Women's Chorus, gardens, and is an avid digital photographer. Her fiction began to appear in print in 1986, and despite repeated washings, remains in circulation in a variety of print and on-line locales. She teaches writing through the UCLA Online Extension program and writes book reviews for a number of publications including Science Fiction Weekly.

"Being a writer is like being Spiderman. It may not always be easy--at times, it can be terribly hard. The highs are very high and the lows can be very low. Sometimes, you even want to quit. But storytelling is a form of superpower; once it gets hold of a person, it will express itself one way or another. The trick is to find a way to tell your tales, to the best of your ability, while living a full and vibrant life."