Coda Languez is a software engineer by day and an artist/author by moonlight. Inspired by Satoshi Kon, Kouta Hirano, Francesca Lia Block, and Clive Barker, she writes black comedy, horror, magic realism, and dark romance led by morally ambiguous, sometimes outright nefarious protagonists. Readers’ relationship status: it’s complicated. A geek overlord with a shameless reality TV habit, she rules over one small human, two Corgis, a sassy shepherd-lab, and a saint of a husband. @codalanguez