Tony Pi was born in Taiwan but grew up in Canada. A Ph.D. in Linguistics, he currently works as an administrator at the Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto. A finalist in 2009 for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, his work also appears or will appear in Fantasy Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, and On Spec, as well as numerous anthologies, including Writers of the Future XXIII, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Dragon and the Stars, and Alembical 2.