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. When 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 1993. In her eight years in New York publishing, she edited a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, and worked with such award-winning and best-selling authors as William F. Nolan, Robert Anton Wilson, Dennis Etchison, Joan Vinge, Tanith Lee, Kathe Koja, Poppy Z. Brite, J.M. Dillard, David Wingrove, Barry Gifford, Patrick McCabe, Syd Field, Phil Farrand, and Peter Dickinson.

Jeanne left New York to pursue her own writing career. Her latest novel is Invoking Darkness (Del Rey, 2001), the third volume after Casting Shadows and Summoning Light (Del Rey, 2001) in her best-selling trilogy The Passing of the Techno-Mages, set in the universe of Babylon 5. Her book The Science of Star Wars (St.Martin's, 1999), was chosen by the New York Public Library for its recommended reading list; The Science of The X-Files (Berkley, 1998) was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award; her first Babylon5 novel, The Shadow Within (Boxtree, 1997; Del Rey, 2003), was named "one of the best TV tie-in novels ever written" by Dreamwatch. Other recent work includes several essays, "Living with Terror: Jack Bauer as a Coping Mechanism in Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disordered America" in Jack Bauer for President: Terrorism and Politics in 24 (ed. Richard Miniter, BenBella, 2008), "Stop Her, She's Got a Gun!" in the book Star Wars on Trial (ed. David Brin and Matthew Woodring, BenBella, 2006), and Down the Wormhole" in Farscape Forever! (ed. Glenn Yeffeth, 2005); a novella, "Negative Space" in the anthology Decalog5: Wonders (ed. Paul Leonard and Jim Mortimore, Virgin Publishing, 1997); and a chapter, "Innovation in Horror," that appears in both Writing Horror: A Handbook (The Horror Writers Association, 1997; updated and revised, 2006) and The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing (Writer's Digest Books, 2002). She has published short fiction, articles, and essays in a number of magazines. Jeanne has also edited the anthology The Many Faces of Van Helsing (Berkley, 2004; reissued in 2008), 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 the Odyssey Writing Workshop (www.odysseyworkshop.org), an intensive, six-week program for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror held each summer in Manchester, NH. 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)