Ras Mashramani lives and writes in West Philadelphia and is a founding member of the Philly grown science fiction collective, Metropolarity. She has served as new media editor at APIARY magazine, and completed an online erotica series with writer Carolyn DeCarlo, entitled DOWN. She frequently performs at the Laser Life, a queer empowered sci-fi reading series. Her work can be found at metropolarity.net and motherwap.blogspot.com.