Colette Phair is the author of Nightmare in Silicon, an answer to the question "What if people didn't dream?" and the story of a dying woman who turns herself into a robot. Colette cites as influences the filmmaking of David Lynch and Alex Proyas, books of Margaret Atwood and William Gibson, and music of Fear Factory and Lab 4, still working against the outside world to create something new under the sun. Originality is second only to an adherence to her morals, or lack thereof. She has worked for feminist and human rights groups and also in journalism. Born out of the industrial wasteland of Cleveland, Colette has lived in the Bay area and currently lives in Paris. Nightmare in Silicon won the 2006 Chiasmus Press First Book Competition and was released from Chiasmus in Fall of 2007.