Bio: Howard Waldop's fiction has won the World Fantasy Award and the Nebula and been nominated for the Hugo multiple times. One of the most unusual writers in the speculative fiction field, Howard is primarily a short-story guy (though he's published a couple of novels, and has been writing another --I, John Mandeville--for many years now); he's written about sixty stories over the course of about thirty years of selling fiction. He lives in rural Washington state these days, where he spends his time fly-fishing and writing, using a manual typewriter. He occasionally teaches at Clarion West.