Suzy McKee Charnas, a Guest of Honor at Readercon 12, has been writing since age 6 and at last got published at 31 or so, with a novel of ferocious humor and enthusiastic radicalism, Walk to the End of the World (1974, Ballantine) (selected by David Pringle for Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels). She followed this with three sequels: Motherlines (1978, Putnam/Berkley), The Furies, and, finally, The Conqueror's Child (1999, Tor), a series chronicling the development not only of her characters but of many of her own ideas over the 25 years it took to write it. These books have been reissued, as the Holdfast Chronicles, in trade paper in the Orb SF classics line. Among more general readers she is better known for The Vampire Tapestry (1980, Simon & Schuster; t.p. from Tor/Forge, selected by Pringle for Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels); a y.a. fantasy series beginning with The Bronze King (1985, Houghton Mifflin/Bantam Starfire; y.a.), followed by The Silver Glove (1988, Bantam, Starfire) and The Golden Thread (1989, Bantam Starfire), currently out of print; Dorothea Dreams (1986, Arbor House/Berkley), a realistic fantasy novel about an artist in northern New Mexico, re-issued by Aquaduct Press, spring 2010; and The Kingdom of Kevin Malone (1993, Harcourt, Brace; y.a., recipient of the Mythopoeic Society's Aslan Award.

Notable among her various shorter works are : "Scorched Supper on New Niger", in the JWC Award nominees anthology New Voices III, 1980, and Women of Wonder: the contemporary years, Harcourt Brace 1995); Nebula nominee "Beauty and the Opera, or the Phantom Beast", Asimov's 1996, and Modern Classics of Fantasy, St. Martins Press, 1997; and Hugo winner "Boobs", Asimov's, July 1989, widely anthologized. "Lowland Sea", in Poe, 2009, is also included in Best Horror of 2009, Nightshade 2010.

A full-length stage play "Vampire Dreams", created by her from the heart of The Vampire Tapestry, has been staged on both coasts (published by BPPI www.broadwayplaypubl.com/vamp.htm). Her memoir, My Father's Ghost, was published by Tarcher in 2002.

Much of her fiction is now available in e-book form.