A. J. Sass is an author, edi­tor, and com­pet­i­tive fig­ure skater. He is the author of Ana on the Edge and Ellen Out­side the Lines as well as a con­trib­u­tor to the This Is Our Rain­bow: 16 Sto­ries of Her, Him, Them, and Us anthol­o­gy. He cur­rent­ly lives in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area with his part­ner and their pets.