Sam J. Miller is the Nebula Award–winning author of Blackfish City. His debut novel, The Art of Starving, was one of NPR’s Best Books of the Year. Sam’s short stories have won a Shirley Jackson Award and been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus awards, and have been reprinted in dozens of anthologies. He’s also the last in a long line of butchers. He lives in New York City.