Kit Reed's career in a nutshell, in a review of her new collection by James Lovegrove in the Financial Times: "She calls herself transgenred", acknowledging that her fiction is too fantastical for most literati and too literary for most fans of the fantastic." P.S. He really liked it. The collection, What Wolves Know, is just out from from PS Publishing. Her most recent novel, Enclave (2009) is now available both as a Tor paperback and in electronic versions; The Night Children, her first and only YA novel, is a Tor Starscape paperback. She has published some 20 novels and dozens of short stories, with two forthcoming in Asimov's SF, "Akbar" included in Haunted Legends, edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas, and Weston Walks in Ellen Datlow's new anthology, The Naked City.

Reed's novels include Armed Camps (Dutton, 1970), Tiger Rag (E.P. Dutton, 1973), Captain Grownup (Dutton, 1976), The Ballad of T. Rantula (Little, Dutton, 1979), Magic Time (Berkley/Putnam, 1980), Fort Privilege (Doubleday, 1985), The Revenge of the Senior Citizens (Doubleday, 1986), Blood Fever (1986), Catholic Girls (Donald I. Fine, 1987), Little Sisters of the Apocalypse (Fiction Collective Two/Black Ice Books, 1994; finalist for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award), J. Eden (University Press of New England, 1996), @expectations (Forge, 2000), Thinner Than Thou (Tor, 2004; winner of an ALA Alex Award), Bronze (Night Shade Books, 2005), and The Baby Merchant (Tor, 2006). Her fourth short story collection, Weird Women, Wired Women (Big Engine, 2004), was also a Tiptree finalist; short fiction before and after it may be found in Mister Da V. and Other Stories (Faber and Faber, 1967), The Killer Mice (Gollancz, 1976), Other Stories and… The Attack of the Giant Baby (Berkley, 1981), Thief of Lives (University of Missouri, 1992), Seven for the Apocalypse (Wesleyan University Press, 1999), and Dogs of Truth: New and Uncollected Stories (Tor, 2005). As Kit Craig she is the author of Gone (Little, Brown, 1992) and Twice Burned (Headline UK, 1993), and other psychological thrillers published here and in the UK. A Guggenheim fellow, she is the first American recipient of an international literary grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation. Her hundred-plus short stories have appeared in, among others, The Yale Review, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Omni, Asimov's SF and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature.

Recently named Wesleyan University's Resident Writer, she also serves on the board of the Authors League Fund. The surviving Scottie is Killer (disguised as the Venerable Mackiller Reed, as the kennel club rejects aggressive dog names). He's named after Enclave's kid hacker, Killer Stade; he could care less about the loss of the beautiful MacBride of Frankenstein.

Of her work, she says, "You go where they'll take you," which includes the Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature, The Kenyon Review and The Yale Review, so who's to say? There's a link to a pretty complete bibliography on her page with more on her new novel, at www.kitreed.net.