When not laboring in his secret identity of a mild-mannered software developer, Elliotte Rusty Harold watches birds, photographs insects, and writes stories. His short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Crossed Genres, Daily Science Fiction, and numerous anthologies. He’s also authored over twenty non-fiction books, most recently Java Network Programming, 4th edition, and JavaMail API, both from O’Reilly. His house is Ravenclaw.

Find him as @elharo on Bluesky or at http://www.elharo.com/blog/