Beth Bernobich is the author of four novels in the Erythandra series: Passion Play (Tor, October 2010), Queen's Hunt (Tor, 2012), Allegiance (Tor, 2013), and The Edge of the Empire (Tor, 2014), as well as Fox and Phoenix (YA fantasy, Viking Children's Books, October 2011), and The Time Roads (alternate history, forthcoming from Tor). Her short story collection A Handful of Pearls & Other Stories (Lethe Press, 2010) will soon be re-released independently as an e-book, second edition, and her novella Ars Memoriae (PS Publishing, December 2009) appeared as a limited edition chapbook, with an introduction from Kage Baker. Passion Play was long-listed for the 2010 Tiptree Award, and won for Best Epic Fantasy in the 2010 RT Reviewer's Choice Awards. Her novelette "The Golden Octopus" (Postscripts, August 2008) was on the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2008, and appeared in 2009: The Year's Best SF & Fantasy (Prime Books). Her novelette "Air and Angels" (Subterranean Online, Spring 2008) appeared in Unplugged: The Year's Best Online Fiction 2009 (Wyrm Publishing). Her novelette "A Flight of Numbers Fantastique Strange" (Asimov's, June 2006) was on the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2006. Her short story "Poison" (Strange Horizons, January 2003) was a finalist for the 2004 Gaylactic Spectrum Award. Her other short fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Interzone, Sex in the System, and Baen's Universe, among other places.

She lives in Bethany, CT with her husband, son, and two idiosyncratic cats.