Jeanne Cavelos is a writer, editor, scientist, and teacher.

She began her professional life as an astrophysicist and mathematician, working in the Astronaut Training Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

Her love of science fiction sent her into a career in publishing. She became a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, where she ran the science fiction/fantasy program and created the Abyss imprint of psychological horror, for which she won the World Fantasy Award. In her eight years in New York publishing, she edited a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, and worked with numerous award-winning and best-selling authors.

Jeanne left New York to pursue her own writing career. Her latest book is Invoking Darkness (Del Rey, 2001), the third volume in her best-selling The Passing of the Techno-Mages trilogy, which is set in the Babylon 5 universe. The Sci-Fi Channel called the trilogy “A revelation for Babylon 5 fans ... Not ‘television episodic’ in look and feel. They are truly novels in their own right.” Her book The Science of Star Wars (St. Martin’s, April 1999), was chosen by the New York Public Library for its recommended reading list. Of the book, CNN said, “Cavelos manages to make some of the most mind-boggling notions of contemporary science understandable, interesting, and even entertaining.” The highly praised The Science of The X-Files (Berkley, 1998) was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her first Babylon 5 novel, The Shadow Within (reissued by Del Rey in 2003), was named “one of the best TV tie-in novels ever written” (Dreamwatch magazine). Other recent work includes an essay, “Stop Her, She’s Got a Gun!” in the book Star Wars on Trial (BenBella, 2006), a novella, “Negative Space” (which was given honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, in the anthology Decalog 5: Wonders, and a chapter, “Innovation in Horror,” that appears in both Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association and The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing (Writer’s Digest Books). She has published short fiction, articles, and essays in a number of magazines.

Jeanne has also edited an anthology, The Many Faces of Van Helsing (Berkley, 2004), which was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. She is currently at work on a biological thriller, Fatal Spiral.

Since she loves working with developing writers, Jeanne created and serves as director of Odyssey, an annual six-week summer writing workshop for writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror held at Saint Anselm College (www.odysseyworkshop.org). Guests have included Dan Simmons, George R. R. Martin, Jane Yolen, Harlan Ellison, and Elizabeth Hand. Jeanne also teaches writing at Saint Anselm College.

In addition, Jeanne runs Jeanne Cavelos Editorial Services. Among the company’s clients are major publishers and best-selling and award-winning writers. www.jeannecavelos.com