Delia Sherman was born in Tokyo, Japan, brought up in Manhattan, and has just moved from Boston back to New York, where she belongs. Her first novel, Through a Brazen Mirror (Ace, 1989), was reprinted by Circlet Press in 1999. Her second novel The Porcelain Dove (Dutton, 1993; Plume, 1994), won the Mythopoeic Award for Best Novel, and her third, written with spouse Ellen Kushner, The Fall of the Kings (Bantam Books, 2002) has been nominated for both the Mythopoeic Award and the Spectrum Award for Gay SF. Her short fiction has appeared in F&SF and the anthologies Xanadu II (Tor, 1994), The Armless Maiden (Tor, 1995), and Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (Avon, 1995), as well as nine volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and The Year's Best Fantasy 5 (EOS 2005). She has stories in the children's anthologiesA Wolf at the Door (Simon & Schuster, 2000), The Green Man (Viking/Penguin 2002), and Faerie Reel (Viking/Penguin 2004), and Firebirds (Viking/Penguin 2005). In collaboration with Ellen Kushner, she wrote the novella "The Fall of the Kings," which appeared in Bending the Landscape: Fantasy. She edited The Horns of Elfland (Roc, 1997) with Donald Keller and Ellen Kushner, and The Essential Bordertown (Tor, 1998) with Terri Windling. She is President of the new Interstitial Arts Foundation, whose purpose is to encourage the creation of art (literary, visual, and performance) that falls between several genres and is therefore hard to classify. Changeling, an urban fairy tale for young readers set in New York, will be coming out from Viking/Penguin in 2006.