Two-time finalist for the Nebula Award author Carolyn Ives Gilman has been publishing fantasy and science fiction for twenty years. Her first novel, Halfway Human (Avon/EOS, 1998), was called “one of the most compelling explorations of gender and power in recent SF” by Locus Magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Bending the Landscape, Interzone, Universe, Full Spectrum, Realms of Fantasy, and others. By day, Gilman is a historian specializing in 18th- and early 19th-century North American history who now lives in St. Louis and works for the Missouri History Museum.