Vylar Kaftan is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. A Clarion West Workshop graduate, she lives on the U.S. West Coast.Kaftan's short story "Civilisation" is included in Farah Mendlesohn's anthology Glorifying Terrorism, and several of her other speculative fiction flash and short stories have also been published. Her short story I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You In Reno, published in the June 2010 issue of Lightspeed Magazine, was a nominee for the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.Her novella "The Weight of the Sunrise," published in the February 2013 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Novella and is a nominee for the 2014 Theodore Sturgeon Award and the Sidewise Award.