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Nebula Award winner Esther Friesner is the author of thirty-five novels and over one hundred seventy-five short stories, in addition to being the editor of ten 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 and a produced playwright.  Her articles on fiction writing have appeared in Writer’s Market and Writer’s Digest Books.

Her latest novels include TEMPING FATE, from Dutton/Penguin, NOBODY’S PRINCESS and NOBODY’S PRIZE (about young Helen of Troy) and SPHINX’S PRINCESS (about young Nefertiti), for Random House.  The sequel, SPHINX’S QUEEN, will appear in 2010, as will a novel about the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, THREADS AND FLAMES, from Penguin. 

On the editorial front, her most recent publications include WITCH WAY TO THE MALL?, STRIP MAULED, and FANGS FOR THE MAMMARIES, an anthology series about witches, werewolves, and vampires in Suburbia.  

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, and lives in Connecticut.