Elizabeth Hand's most recent books are Generation Loss (Small Beer Press, 2007; finalist for the 2007 Believer/McSweeney's Book Award and the first Shirley Jackson Award), Illyria (PS Publishing, 2007; also a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award), Saffron & Brimstone: Strange Stories (M Press, 2006), and Pandora's Bride (Dark Horse Books, 2007). She is also the author of the novels Winterlong (Bantam Spectra, 1990), Æstival Tide (Bantam Spectra, 1992), Icarus Descending (Bamtam Spectra, 1993), Waking the Moon (HarperCollins, 1994), Glimmering (HarperPrism, 1997), Black Light (HarperPrism, 1999), and Mortal Love (William Morrow, 2004); the cult favorite Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol (SciFiction, 2000); the short-story collections Last Summer at Mars Hill (HarperPrism, 1998) and Bibliomancy (PS Publishing, 2003); numerous film novelizations; and the Boba Fett series of Star Wars juveniles. Since 1988, she has been a regular contributor to the Washington Post Book World, the Village Voice and DownEast, among numerous others, and she writes a review column for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. With Paul Witcover, she created and wrote the groundbreaking 1990s DC Comics series Anima. In 2001 she received an Individual Artist's Fellowship in Literature from the Maine Arts Commision and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her fiction has received two World Fantasy Awards, two Nebulas, two International Horror Guild Awards, as well as the James Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society Awards. She lives on the coast of Maine, where she recently completed Wonderwall, a YA novel about Arthur Rimbaud. She takes great pride in being one-quarter of the litblog The Inferior 4.