Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen has published the following stories in England and America: "The Gift" (as Marilyn Brahen) in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Winter 1994, Issue #22; "The Greater Thirst" in Dreams of Decadence, Issue #2 Spring/Summer 1996; "Tiny Doll-Face" (as Mattie Brahen)in Fantastic (formerly Pirate Writings), Spring 2000; in Scheherazade (England) she published "Afertere's Eyes" in 2000 in Issue #19, "Gotta Dance" in 2003 in Issue #25, and "Darius" in 2008 in Issue #30; "All in the Golden Afternoon" in Crafty Cat Crimes, a Barnes & Noble anthology in 2000; "Trick or Treat with Jesus" in The Ultimate Halloween, an ibooks anthology in 2001; and "Call of the Drum" in Space and Time, Issue #100, Spring 2007. Her first novel, Claiming Her, was published by Wildside Press in 2003. Her second novel, Reforming Hell, (Wildside Press) published in 2009, is its sequel and completes the tale. This year, in 2011, her first mystery, a police procedural, Baby Boy Blue, came out in January, also published by Wildside Press. She is currently working on a children's book. Mattie has also reviewed for The New York Review of Science Fiction, and has articles in the nonfiction Neil Gaiman Reader (Wildside Press). She enjoys writing poetry and lyrics, singing, playing guitar, and performing her own and others' songs. Mattie lives in Philadelphia, PA, with her husband, author and editor Darrell Schweitzer, and their literary cats, Tolkien and Galadriel. Her day-job is an Executive Secretary with the Philadelphia Water Department; she looks forward to retiring in four years and living a full-time creative life.