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Authors | Esther Friesner

Nebula Award winner Esther Friesner is the author of thirty-one novels and over one hundred fifty short stories, in addition to being the editor of seven popular anthologies. Her works have been published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Russia, France, Poland and Italy. She is also a published poet, a produced playwright, and once wrote an advice column, "Ask Auntie Esther". Her articles on fiction writing have appeared in Writer's Market and Writer's Digest Books.

Besides winning two Nebula Awards in succession for Best Short Story (1995 and 1996), she was a Nebula finalist three times and a Hugo finalist once. She received the Skylark Award from NESFA and the award for Most Promising New Fantasy Writer of 1986 from Romantic Times.

Her latest publications include TEMPING FATE from Penguin-Puffin; a short story collection, DEATH AND THE LIBRARIAN AND OTHER STORIES, from Thorndyke Press; and TURN THE OTHER CHICK from Baen Books, fifth in the popular "Chicks in Chainmail" series that she created and edits. She is currently working on two YA novels for Random House about young Helen of Troy???NOBODY'S PRINCESS and NOBODY'S PRIZE--as well as continuing to write and publish short fiction.

Educated at Vassar College, receiving a B.A. degree in both Spanish and Drama, she went on to receive her M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish from Yale University, where she taught for a number of years. She is married, the mother of two, harbors cats, and lives in Connecticut.

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