Eugene Mirabelli (Gene) had his first novel published fifty years ago. He is the author of eight novels, one novella and a mini-book, certain anonymous pieces, and numerous journal articles and reviews. He didn't know he wrote science fiction until a few years ago when Fantasy & Science Fiction published one of his short stories. His novels are mainstream fiction, often deal with affairs of the heart and should not be left around the house where youngsters might read them. He's received grants for his work, including one from the Rockefeller Foundation.

His books include The Burning Air (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959; London: Hutchinson Ltd., 1960), The Way In (New York: Viking Press, 1968; London: Chatto & Windus, 1969), No Resting Place (New York: Viking Press, 1972; paperback New York: Curtis Books, 1973), The World at Noon (Montreal: Guernica Editions, 1994), The Book of the Milky Way (Third Coast, Winter 1996; nominated for the Pushcart Prize), The Language Nobody Speaks (Delmar: Spring Harbor Press, 1999), The Passion of Terri Heart (Delmar: Spring Harbor Press, 2004), The Queen of the Rain Was in Love with the Prince of the Sky (Delmar: Spring Harbor Press, 2008), the most recent being The Goddess in Love with a Horse (Delmar: Spring Harbor Press, 2008).

Mirabelli's few short stories include the Nebula Award finalist "The Woman in Schrodinger's Wave Equations" (Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 2006), anthologized in Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 (ed. Ben Bova), and "Falling Angel" (F&SF, December 2008), which will appear in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2009 (ed. Rich Horton). His work has appeared, infrequently, in literary journals such as Third Coast and the Michigan Quarterly and online at sites such as Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse, and been anthologized in Sweet Lemons (ed. Venera Fazio and Delia De Santis, 2004), Writers and Their Craft: Short Stories & Essays on the Narrative (eds. Nicholas Delbanco and Laurence Goldstein, 1999), and North Country (eds. Joseph Bruchac, Craig Hancock, Alice Gilborn and Jean Rikhoff, 1986). Languages his work has been published in include Czech, Hebrew, Russian, Sicilian, and Turkish.

Gene Mirabelli lives in upstate New York and writes political opinion pieces for an alternative newsweekly, plus book reviews on science, economics and political affairs.