Delia Sherman was born in Tokyo, Japan and brought up in Manhattan, where she now lives, after a brief (33-year) hiatus in Boston, MA. 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 The Fall of the Kings (Bantam Books, 2002) , written with spouse Ellen Kushner, was nominated for both the Mythopoeic Award and the Spectrum Award for Gay SF. Two novels for younger readers, Changeling and The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, have been published by Viking (2006, 2009). Her adult short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, most recently "Gift from a Spring" in Realms of Fantasy (April 2008), Salon Fantastique (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006) and Poe (Solaris, 2009) as well as in thirteen volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin's, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008) and two volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy (EOS, 2005, 2009). Her stories for younger readers have appeared in anthologies A Wolf at the Door (Simon & Schuster, 2000), The Green Man (Viking/Penguin, 2002), Faerie Reel (Viking/Penguin, 2004), Firebirds (Viking/Penguin, 2005) and Coyote Road (Viking/Penguin, 2007). In collaboration with Ellen Kushner, she wrote the novella "The Fall of the Kings," which appeared in Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (Borealis, 1996). She edited The Horns of Elfland (Roc, 1997) with Donald Keller and Ellen Kushner, The Essential Bordertown (Tor, 1998) with Terri Windling, and two volumes of Interfictions, the first with Theodora Goss (SBP, 2006) and the second with Christopher Barzak (SBP, 2009). She is on the executive board of the Interstitial Arts Foundation.