Selected as one of the Best Books of the Year in science fiction and fantasy by Amazon.com. Delving deeper into the genre-spanning territory explored in Interfictions , the Interstitial Arts Foundation’s first groundbreaking anthology, Interfictions 2 showcases twenty-one original and innovative writers. It includes contributions from authors from six countries, including the United States, Poland, Norway, Australia, France, and Great Britain. Newcomers such as Alaya Dawn Johnson , Theodora Goss , and Alan DeNiro rub shoulders with established visionaries such as Jeffrey Ford ( The Drowned Life ), Brian Francis Slattery ( Liberation ), Nin Andrews ( The Book of Orgasms ), and M. Rickert ( Map of Dreams ). Also featured are works by Will Ludwigsen , Cecil Castellucci , Ray Vukcevich , Carlos Hernandez , Lavie Tidhar , Elizabeth Ziemska , Peter M. Ball , Camilla Bruce , Amelia Beamer , William Alexander , Shira Lipkin , Lionel Davoust , Stephanie Shaw , and David J. Schwartz . Colleen Mondor , of the well-known blog Chasing Ray , interviews the editors for the afterword. Henry Jenkins , ex-director of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program and now a member of USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and School of Cinematic Arts, provides a fantastic introduction sure to set readers’ imaginations alight. Interfictions 2 is here and ready to be read, discussed, taught, blogged, taken apart, and re-interpreted. Delia Sherman was born in Tokyo, Japan, and brought up in New York City. She earned a PhD in Renaissance Studies at Brown University and taught at Boston University and Northeastern University. She is the author of the novels Through a Brazen Mirror , The Porcelain Dove , Changeling , and The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen . A co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, she lives in New York City. Christopher Barzak is the author of the novels One for Sorrow and The Love We Share Without Knowing . His stories have appeared in Nerve.com, Pindeldyboz , Strange Horizons , Descant , and the first volume of Interfictions . He teaches writing at Youngstown State University.