Daryl Gregory (www.darylgregory.com) lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Kathy Bieschke, and their two children, and works for a statistical software company. Formerly he has worked as an English teacher, a “telecom trainer,” and a technical writer. He is one of the most striking new talents to emerge in fantasy and SF in the last few years. His powerful short fiction, characteristically interested in brain chemistry and psychology, has appeared in previous volumes of Year’s Best SF. His first novel, Pandemonium, was published in the fall of 2008, and won the IAFA/Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Book. A new novel, The Devil’s Alphabet, publishes in 2009.
“Glass” appeared in MIT Technology Review. It is about a drug trial involving psychopaths, and is one of the latest in a group of Gregory stories about brain chemistry and human personality, on the cutting edge of science. It has profound social and philosophical implications.