Thea van Diepen hails from the snowy land of Canada and that fairest of cities, Edmonton, Alberta. She is, of course, entirely unbiased, as she has a Bachelor's in psychology (wait, that's not how that works...) and is obsessed with Orphan Black, the books of Madeleine L'Engle, and nerdy language things.

When Thea was eight years old, she took a test in school that required her to write a story. This prospect excited her greatly, and she decided to write an epic fantasy adventure. Upon opening the test, she discovered she had to incorporate a girl going on a hike with her family. Thinking fast, she opened the story with said hike, dropped the girl through a hole into a magical world, thereby ditching the family on the mountainside, and happily wrote whatever she wanted until the end of the test.

Her website is expectedaberrations.com, home of all things that lie on the edge of the bell curve, and she can be contacted via that site in English or French. If you do email her in French, though, please don't ask her to count in it as she tends to skip numbers ending in six entirely by accident.