First, thank you to Ruoxi Chen, editor extraordinaire, who gets my work like few ever have and who unfailingly cheers me on, and to my agent, Diana Fox, who has always encouraged me to be my best and least restrained self.
The team at Tordotcom Publishing has been amazing—so much love to Lauren Hougen, Mordicai Knode, Caroline Perny, Amanda Melfi, Sanaa Ali-Virani, Christine Foltzer, Lauren Anesta, and Irene Gallo!
Alyssa Winans, of course, continues to knock it outta the park with this cover, and I couldn’t stop staring or smiling when I saw it for the first time.
Thank you as always to Cris Chingwa, Victoria Coy, Leah Kolman, Amy Lepke, and Meredy Shipp!
And of course, once again, thank you to Shane Hochstetler, Grace Palmer, and Carolyn Mulroney. I couldn’t ask for a better set of humans to call my own.
Life’s weird and only getting weirder by the day. I’m so grateful that I have the right people to share it with.