Christine Weiser is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the literary magazine Philadelphia Stories and the Publisher of Tech & Learning magazine, a division of Future Media, a global media company that reaches one in three people in the UK and US through brands and events that span specialist interests across B2C and B2B. She culled a few inspirations for her novels Broad Street and Come As You Are from her time playing bass in the bands RunHideFight and Mae Pang. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband Rob Giglio, the drummer for the glam band Creem Circus, and their son. (Photo by Bill Ecklund.)