Mercurio D. Rivera is an attorney and compliance officer who lives in the Bronx in New York City. His short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and has appeared in markets such as Year's Best SF 17, edited by Hartwell & Cramer; Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy, edited by Rich Horton; Asimov's; Interzone; Nature; Black Static and elsewhere. His stories have been podcast at Escape Pod and StarShipSofaand translated and republished in China, Poland and the Czech Republic. His tales "Longing for Langalana" and "Tethered" (about aliens biochemically attracted to human beings) have been taught in college courses in the United States and Venezuela. Tor.com called his collection Across the Event Horizon (NewCon Press 2013), "weird and wonderful" with "dizzying switchbacks." His website is mercuriorivera.com.
