L. Timmel Duchamp is the author of a collection of short fiction, Love's Body, Dancing in Time (Aqueduct, 2004), which was shortlisted for the Tiptree and includes the Sturgeon-finalist story "Dance at the Edge" and the Titpree-shortlisted "The Apprenticeship of Isabetta di Pietro Cavazzi"; the five-novel Marq'ssan Cycle, consisting of Alanya to Alanya (Aqueduct, 2005), Renegade (Aqueduct, 2006), and Tsunami, Blood in the Fruit, and Stretto (all forthcoming from Aqueduct in 2006 and 2007); the short novel, The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding) (Aqueduct, 2005); dozens of short stories, including "Motherhood, Etc" (short-listed for the Tiptree), "Things of the Flesh," "Living Trust" (Nebula finalist), "Quinn's Deal" (Hugo nominated), and the critically acclaimed "The Fool's Tale"; an essay collection, The Grand Conversation (Aqueduct, 2004); as well as numerous essays, most recently "Something Rich and Strange: Karen Joy Fowler's 'What I Didn't See"' in Daughters of Earth, ed. Justine Larbalestier (Wesleyan University Press, 2006). She has several stories forthcoming: "The Tears of Niobe" (in Paraspheres, ed. Rusty Morrison and Ken Keegan, Omnidawn, August 2006), which Nick Gevers in his Locus review characterizes as "spectacular"; "Obscure Relations" (in The Future is Queer, ed. Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel, Arsenal Pulp Press, October 2006); and "The Man Who Plugged In" (in re: skin, ed. Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth, the MIT Press, December 2006).

In addition to writing fiction and criticism, Duchamp is also the publisher and editor of Aqueduct Press, which in its first two years has published Gwyneth Jones's Life (which won the Philip K. Dick Award) and Mindscape, Andrea Hairston's debut novel. She is a member of the collective blog Now What and lives in Seattle.