Haley Byrd Wilt is a writer based in the D.C. area. Her reporting has been published in Christianity Today, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, and NOTUS, among others. Several of her fiction stories have appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact.  She spent nine years covering the U.S. Congress before deciding her time might be used better elsewhere.​ Now, when Haley isn't reading, she's usually outside or making crafts with her kids.