Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. This, coupled with a childhood tendency to read the dictionary for fun, led her inevitably to penury, intransigence, the mispronunciation of common English words, and the writing of speculative fiction.

She grew up in New England and lived in Las Vegas for seven years. She now resides near Hartford in a tiny apartment with a presumptuous cat and has no plans to leave the Northeast ever again, except on brief exploratory excursions.

She has six novels and two short story collections in print, and eleven more books under contract. She was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She’s a Locus Award winner, and has been nominated for several other major genre awards, including the BSFA, the Lambda Award, and the Phillip K. Dick Award, for which she received a special citation for Carnival.

Her available publications include: The Jenny Casey trilogy: Hammered, Scardown, Worldwired (Bantam Spectra, 2005); Carnival (Bantam Spectra, 2006); short story collections: (Night Shade Books) The Chains That You Refuse (2006); Abigail Irene Garrett and Sebastien de Ulloa mysteries: (Subterranean Press) New Amsterdam (mosaic novel, 2007); and several dozen short stories and poems in various venues.