CYNTHIA (CINA) PELAYO is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Master of Fine Art in Writing program. Her short story collection, LOTERIA, is a collection of 54 short stories based on Latin American folklore, superstition, legend and myth. Her first horror novel, Santa Muerte, about the Mexican cult of death will be released in October via Post Mortem Press. She is a member of the Horror Writer's Association and is also the Publisher/Gravedigger of Burial Day Books. She wears black-most of the time-and she stays out of the sun as much as (un)humanly possible.