Tristan Palmgren has been a clerk, a factory technician, a university lecturer, a cashier, a secretary, a retail manager, a rural coroner’s assistant. In their lives on parallel Earths, they have been an ant farm tycoon, funeral home enthusiast, professional con-artist impersonator, laser pointer chaser, and that person who somehow landed a trademark for the word “Avuncular.” Jealous. They live with their wife, Teresa, in Columbia, Missouri.