David Steffen is an editor, writer, publisher, and software engineer. He has edited and written for the Diabolical Plots zine since its launch in 2008, and which started publishing new fiction in 2015. He is most well-known for co-founding and administering The Submission Grinder, a free web tool that helps writers find markets for their fiction and to find response time statistics about those markets, as well as for last year’s first Long List Anthology. His fiction has been published in many great venues, including Escape Pod, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction, Drabblecast, Podcastle, AE, Pseudopod, and Cast of Wonders.