Michi Trota is an essayist, editor, speaker, and community organizer. She is the Managing Editor for the Hugo Award-nominated Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and writes about geek culture on her blog, Geek Melange. She is also a member of the Chicago Nerd Social Club Board of Organizers and a fire performer with the Raks Geek bellydance+fire troupe. Michi has spoken at venues such as C2E2, Wizard World Chicago, DePaul University, the University of Chicago, WisCon, and the Chicago Humanities Festival. In her (meager) spare time, she cooks, reads, and gets into shenanigans with her partner and 2 cats.