EscapeBOD, Episode 136, We Who Live in the Heart. Part 2 by Kelly Robson. Welcome to a Skateport, the science fiction podcast. I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's

story is the second in a three-parter by Kelly Robson. You can find the previous part in episode 1035,

which should be just up. A little bits left. There, you got it.

Kelly writes science fiction, fantasy and horror.

Her short fiction collection, alias space and other stories, was published by Subterranean and won

the 2022 Aurora Award.

Her time travel adventure, gods, monsters and the Lucky Peach, won the 2019 Aurora and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula,

Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus.

Her most recent book, The Fantasy Stoner Comedy, High Times in the Low Parliament,

was a finalist for the Nebula.

In 2018, her story A Human Stain won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and her story

We Who Live in the Heart, this one, was a finalist for the 2018 Theodore Sturgeon.

In 2017, she was a finalist for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and in 2016,

her novella Waters of Versailles, won the Pre-Ororora Award and was a finalist for Nebula

and World Fantasy.

Her story, The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill, was a finalist for the 2015 Theodore

Sturgeon, and her story to Yehman was a finalist for the 2015 Sunburst.

Kelly grew up in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, and as a teenager was crowned princess

of the Hinton Big Horn Rodeo. From 2008 to 2012, she

wrote the Wine and Spirits column for Chattelaine, Canada's largest women's magazine. Kelly

consults as a creative futurist for national and international organizations. She and her wife,

AM Delammonica, live in downtown Toronto. Your narrator for this one is the always excellent Iber Armancasse.

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