"Ferrett Steinmetz" is the pen name of author William Steinmetz, who writes science fiction and urban fantasy fiction.Steinmetz's stories have appeared in dozens of magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Apex Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, Bards and Sages Quarterly, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Drabblecast, Dragons, Escape Pod, Fantasy Scroll Magazine, PodCastle, Pseudopod, Uncanny Magazine, and have been collected in anthologies. His first novel, "Flex," was published in2015.