Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and other magazines. Her writing has been nominated for the SLF Fountain Award, translated into Swedish and Hebrew, and included in "Best of" anthologies. Her sf poetry has twice been nominated for the Rhysling Award.
Constance holds an MA in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Journalism from UC Santa Cruz. She has worked as a researcher for the Linguistic Data Consortium, a website developer, and a software engineer for a pioneering natural language search company. (There was also that stint as a professional balloon twister.)
She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and has lived in Surrey, England; Newfoundland, Canada; Philadelphia, PA; and Edinburgh, Scotland. She now lives in the Bay Area with her husband and son.
