Across the Spectrum (68 page)

Marion Zimmer Bradley
is probably best known for her
Darkover novels and her best-selling Arthurian novel
The Mists of Avalon
.
In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and
professional, including
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine
, which
she started in 1988, as well as an annual anthology,
Sword and Sorceress
.

Marie Brennan
Marie Brennan is an anthropologist and
folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for material. She most
recently misapplied her professors’ hard work to the Onyx Court historical
fantasy series (
Midnight Never Come, In Ashes Lie, A Star Shall Fall,
and
With Fate Conspire
). She is also the author of the doppelganger duology
of
Warrior
and
Witch
, the scientific adventure
A Natural
History of Dragons
, and more than forty short stories. When she’s not
obsessing over historical details too minute for anybody but her to care about,
she practices shorin-ryu karate and pretends to be other people in role-playing
games (which sometimes find their way into her writing).

Jeffrey A. Carver
grew
up on the Lake Erie shores of Huron, Ohio, but eventually settled in the Boston
area, where he lives with his family. Currently he’s writing a new volume in
his popular series
The Chaos Chronicles
.
Another of his favorite places to spin tales is his Star Rigger universe; one
story in that world,
Eternity’s End
,
was a finalist for the Nebula Award. Among his stand-alone works are
The Rapture Effect
, and
Battlestar Galactica
, a novelization of
the SciFi Channel’s miniseries. By many accounts, his work is hard science
fiction, but his greatest love remains character, story, and a healthy sense of
wonder. As a teacher, Carver once hosted an educational TV series on the
writing of SF and fantasy. In person, he’s taught at MIT, Odyssey, and the New
England Young Writer’s Conference; and he is cofounder of the Ultimate SF
Writing Workshop, in the Boston area.

Inspired by a lifelong love of nature, endless curiosity, and a
belief in wonderful things,
Amy Sterling Casil
is a 2002 Nebula Award nominee
and recipient of other awards and recognition for her short science fiction and
fantasy, which has appeared in publications ranging from
The Magazine of
Fantasy & Science Fiction
to
Zoetrope
. She is the author of 26
nonfiction books, about a hundred short stories, primarily science fiction and
fantasy, two fiction and poetry collections, and three novels. She lives in
Aliso Viejo, California, with her daughter Meredith and a Jack Russell Terrier
named Gambit. Amy is a business consultant and teaches writing and composition
at Saddleback College, after receiving her MFA from Chapman University in 1999.

Brenda W. Clough
spent much of her childhood overseas,
courtesy of the US government. Her first fantasy novel,
The Crystal Crown,
was published by DAW in 1984. She has also
written
The Dragon of Mishbil
(1985),
The Realm Beneath
(1986), and
The Name of the Sun
(1988). Her
children’s novel,
An Impossumble Summer
(1992), is set in her own house in Virginia, where she lives in a cottage at
the edge of a forest. Her novel,
How Like
a God
, was published by Tor Books in 1997, and a sequel,
Doors of Death and Life
, was published
in May 2000.

Doranna Durgin
’s quirkiness of spirit has led to an
eclectic publishing journey since her first award-winning novel, spanning
genres over 40 published novels to include mystery, SF/F, action-romance,
paranormal, franchise, and a slew of essays and short stories, and now
combining those ongoing releases with joyful new indie efforts. Beyond that,
mostly she still prefers to hang around outside her New Mexico mountain home
with the animals, riding dressage on her Lipizzan and training for performance
sports with the dogs. She doesn’t believe so much in mastering the beast
within, but in channeling its power. For good or bad has yet to be decided . . .

Sylvia Kelso
lives in North Queensland, Australia, and
writes mostly novels, in fantasy, SF and mystery/time-travel genres, with
alternate North Queensland or analogue Australian settings. Two of her novels
have been finalists for best fantasy novel in the Aurealis Australian genre
fiction awards.

Katharine Kerr
spent her childhood in a Great Lakes
industrial city and her adolescence in Southern California, whence she fled to
the San Francisco Bay Area just in time to join a number of the Revolutions
then in progress. After fleeing those in turn, she became a professional
storyteller and an amateur skeptic, who regards all True Believers with a
jaundiced eye, even those who true-believe in Science. An inveterate loafer,
baseball addict, and rock and roll fan, she begrudgingly spares time to write
novels, including the Deverry series of historical fantasies or fantastical
histories, depending on your point of view. She lives near San Francisco with
her husband of many years and some cats.

Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
reinvents herself every decade
or so. It’s not on purpose, mind you—it seems her path involves overturning the
apple cart, collecting new information & varieties of apple seed, and
moving on. The one constant she has reached for in life is telling stories.

Mindy Klasky
learned to read when her parents shoved a
book in her hands and told her she could travel anywhere in the world through
stories. She never forgot that advice. Her travels took her through multiple
careers—from litigator to librarian to full-time writer. Her travels have also
taken her through various literary genres for readers of all ages—from
traditional fantasy to paranormal chick-lit to category romance, from
middle-grade to young adult to adult. In her spare time, she knits, quilts, and
tries to tame her endless to-be-read shelf. Her husband and cats do their best
to fill the left-over minutes.

Sue Lange
is your typical multi-tasking author. She
tweets, facebooks, and blogs so much she has no time to write. The minute she
sits down to do so, somebody somewhere posts another cute cat photo, or an
update on the fertility rites of the Royal Family. You know, something that
simply must be investigated. Somehow in the distant past before humanity
discovered the Internet, she did write.

Ursula K. Le Guin
is a founding member of Book View Café.
She has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four
collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and
four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book
Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include the novel
Lavinia
,
an essay collection,
Cheek by Jowl
, and
The Wild Girls
, and
Finding
My Elegy, New and Selected Poems
. Small Beer Press published her two-volume
story collection,
The Real and the Unreal
, in 2013. She lives in
Portland, Oregon.

David D. Levine’s
short stories have appeared in
Asimov’s
,
F&SF
,
Analog
,
Realms of Fantasy
,
and numerous other magazines, websites, and anthologies, including four Year’s
Best volumes (two SF, two Fantasy). He’s won a Hugo (Best Short Story, for
“Tk’Tk’Tk”) and has received many other awards and nominations. He likes to
think of himself as a writer who takes the classic ideas of Golden Age SF and
gives them a fresh, up-to-date presentation… the SF equivalent of a New Beetle
or Mini Cooper. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he’s spent more than half
his life, and is now happily retired after working for 24 years at Tektronix,
Intel, and McAfee. He co-edits the fanzine
Bento
with his wife, Kate Yule.

Vonda N. McIntyre
writes science fiction.

Mary Anne Mohanraj
is author of
Bodies in Motion
(HarperCollins) and nine other titles.
Bodies in Motion
was a finalist
for the Asian American Book Awards, a USA Today Notable Book, and has been
translated into six languages. Mohanraj founded the World Fantasy Award-winning
and Hugo-nominated magazine,
Strange Horizons
. She was Guest of Honor at
WisCon 2010, received a Breaking Barriers Award from the Chicago Foundation for
Women for her work in Asian American arts organizing, and won an Illinois Arts
Council Fellowship in Prose. Mohanraj has taught at the Clarion SF/F workshop,
and is now Clinical Assistant Professor of fiction and literature and Associate
Coordinator of Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois
at Chicago. She serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (www.desilit.org)
and the Speculative Literature Foundation (www.speclit.org). Recent
publications include
Without a Map
, Aqueduct Press, co-authored with
Nnedi Okorafor. She lives in a creaky old Victorian in Oak Park, just outside
Chicago, with her partner, Kevin, two small children, and a sweet dog.

Nancy Jane Moore
is a founding member of Book View Café.
Her books
Ardent Forest, Changeling
(first published by Aqueduct Press),
Conscientious Inconsistencies
(first published by PS Publishing), and
Flashes
of Illumination
are all available from the Book View Café bookstore. Her
fiction has appeared in a variety of anthologies and in magazines ranging from
Lady
Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
to the
National Law Journal
. She
divides her time between Austin, Texas, and Oakland, California.

Pati Nagle
is a native of northern New Mexico. An avid
student of music, history, and humans in general, she has a special love of the
outdoors, particularly New Mexico’s mountains, which inspire many of her
stories. Her short fiction has appeared in
Asimov’s
Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Cricket,
Cicada,
and in anthologies honoring New Mexico writers Jack Williamson and
Roger Zelazny. Her two fantasy series,
Immortal
and
Blood of the
Kindred
, were inspired by her love of Tolkein. She has also written a
series of historical novels as P.G. Nagle and writes mysteries as Patrice
Greenwood. She is a founding member of Book View Café.

Shannon Page
was born on Halloween night and spent her
early years on a back-to-the-land commune in northern California. A childhood
without television gave her a great love of books and the worlds she found in
them. At seven, she wrote her first book, an illustrated adventure starring her
cat. Sadly, that story is out of print, but her work has appeared in
Clarkesworld
,
Interzone, Fantasy
,
Black
Static
, Tor.com, and many anthologies, including the Australian Shadows
Award-winning
Grants Pass
. Her debut
collection,
Eastlick and Other Stories
,
appeared in October 2013 at Book View Café, and she has two novels following
soon:
Eel River
, a hippie horror
tale, from Morrigan Books; and
The Queen
and The Tower
, first book in The Nightcraft Quartet, from Per Aspera Press.
Her editorial work can be seen in the anthology
Witches, Stitches & Bitches
, from Evil Girlfriend Media. She is
a longtime yoga practitioner, has no tattoos, and is an avid gardener at home
with her partner Mark Ferrari in Portland, Oregon.

Irene Radford,
aka P.R. Frost, aka C.F. Bentley, has been
writing stories ever since she figured out what a pencil was for. A member of
an endangered species, a native Oregonian who lives in Oregon, she and her
husband make their home in Welches, Oregon, where deer, bears, coyotes, hawks,
owls, and woodpeckers feed regularly on their back deck. A museum-trained
historian, Phyllis Irene has spent many hours prowling pioneer cemeteries,
deepening her connections to the past. Raised in a military family, she grew up
all over the US and learned early on that books are friends that don’t get left
behind with a move. Her interests and reading range from ancient history, to
spiritual meditations, to space stations, and a whole lot in between. Her
signal corps brother has launched several communications satellites on the
Shuttle. Watching those launches got her hooked on the ideal of humans reaching
out into the universe.

With several million books in print and
New York Times
and
USA
Today’s
bestseller lists under her belt, former CPA
Patricia Rice
is
one of romance’s hottest authors. Patricia Rice’s emotionally-charged
contemporary and historical romances have won numerous awards, including the
RT Book Reviews
Reviewers Choice and
Career Achievement Awards. Her books have also been honored as Romance Writers
of America RITA® finalists in the historical, regency and contemporary
categories. A firm believer in happily-ever-after, Patricia Rice is married to
her high school sweetheart and has two children. A native of Kentucky and New
York, a past resident of North Carolina, she currently resides in California,
and now does accounting only for herself.

Madeleine E. Robins
been a nanny, an administrator, an
actor, a swordswoman, trafficked book production, edited comics, and repaired
hurt books. She’s also the author of five Regency romances, the dark urban
fantasy
The Stone War
(a New York
Times Notable Book),
Daredevil: The
Cutting Edge
, and three Regency-noir mysteries,
Point of Honour,
Petty
Treason
, and
The Sleeping Partner,
featuring the redoubtable Sarah Tolerance, Agent of Inquiry.
Sold for Endless Rue,
a gloss on the
Rapunzel story set at the medieval medical school of Salerno, was published in
2013 by Forge Books. An unregenerate New Yorker, she now lives in San
Francisco.