Bio: Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an award-winning mystery, science fiction, and fantasy writer. Her novella, The Gallery of His Dreams, won the Locus Award for best short fiction. Her body of fiction work won her the John W. Campbell Award, given in 1991 in Europe. She has been nominated for several dozen fiction awards, and her short work has been reprinted in six Year's Best collections.

In 1999, her story, "Echea," (available here at Fictionwise) was nominated for the Locus, Nebula, Hugo, and Sturgeon awards. It won the Homer Award and the Asimov's Reader's Choice Award. In 1999, she also won the Ellery Queen Reader's Choice Award and the Science Fiction Age Reader's Choice Award, making her the first writer to win three different reader's choice awards for three different stories in two different genres in the same year.

She has published twenty novels under her own name and fifty total, including pseudonymous books. Her novels have been published in seven languages, and have spent several weeks on The USA Today Bestseller list and The Wall Street Journal Bestseller list. She has written a number of Star Trek novels with her husband, Dean Wesley Smith, including a book in this summer's crossover series called New Earth.

Under the name Kris Nelscott, she has just published a mystery novel titled A Dangerous Road. St. Martins Press released it to rave reviews.

She is the former editor of prestigious The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. She won a Hugo for her work there. Before that, she and Dean Wesley Smith, started and ran Pulphouse Publishing, a science fiction and mystery press in Eugene.

She lives and works on the Oregon Coast.