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16 Facts About Ekaterina Sedia

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Ekaterina Sedia immigrated to the United States and attended college in New Jersey to obtain her Ph.

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Ekaterina Sedia has written several short fiction stories, poems, and nonfiction books, as well as edited anthologies of short stories.

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Ekaterina Sedia was born on July 9,1970 in Moscow, Russia, as Ekaterina Holland.

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At age 21, Ekaterina Sedia moved to the United States to pursue advanced degrees.

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Ekaterina Sedia currently teaches plant ecology and botany at Stockton University and lives in New Jersey with her husband Christopher Sedia and their cats.

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Ekaterina Sedia later moved to Boston and worked at MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Science as a research assistant.

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Ekaterina Sedia has written novels, short stories, and essays, and has edited several anthologies.

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Ekaterina Sedia has occasionally published under the name E Sedia.

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Ekaterina Sedia then turns into a jackdaw and flies away.

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Ekaterina Sedia then meets an alcoholic artist named Fyodor who claims he knows where the bird people go.

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Ekaterina Sedia has the key to Mattie's heart literally and will do what it takes to stop her.

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Ekaterina Sedia was an intern non-fiction editor for Clarkesworld Magazine, in the fall of 2008.

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Ekaterina Sedia is editor of the Award-winning Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, and other collections including Circus Fantasy: Fantasy Under the Big Top, Jigsaw Nation, and Running with the Pack.

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Ekaterina Sedia is an associate professor of biology at Stockton University, in Galloway, New Jersey.

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Ekaterina Sedia specializes in the characteristics of the New Jersey Pine Barrens and how the population of lichens, mosses, and grasses affect the forests and the succession of the forest.

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Ekaterina Sedia coauthored an influential paper on the differential effects of lichens, mosses, and grasses on respiration and nitrogen mineralization, how it promotes an alternate plant community, and decomposition of litter in the New Jersey Pinelands.