Lucy A. Snyder

I thought that surely I wouldn't need a biography page until I had a novel or three out, and then it might be time for a fancy-schmancy press kit and all that. After all, there's a Wikipedia entry on me, and I've got some personal tidbits on the main page of this site, and surely that's enough, right?

Well, apparently not. I keep getting requests for my bio from magazine editors and convention organizers, each of whom has different length requirements. And sometimes I get a request when I'm on a trip. So, I've put up this page for my own reference as well as for the edification of random site visitors.

All the bios on this page can be freely duplicated elsewhere provided you don't alter the text (aside from mixing and matching paragraphs, if that suits your needs). Scroll down and grab the one you like!

45 Words of Basic Bio:

Lucy A. Snyder is the author of Sparks and Shadows, Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, and the upcoming Del Rey novel Spellbent. Her writing has appeared in Strange Horizons, Farthing, Masques V, Doctor Who Short Trips: Destination Prague, Chiaroscuro, GUD, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.

60-Word Addition To Basic Bio:

Lucy was born in South Carolina but grew up in the cowboys-and-cactus part of Texas. She currently lives in Worthington, Ohio with her husband and occasional co-author Gary A. Braunbeck.

If genres were wall-building nations, Lucy's stories would be forging passports, jumping fences, swimming rivers and dodging bullets. You can learn more about her at www.lucysnyder.com.

85-Word Expansion to the Addition:

Lucy has a BS in biology and an MA in journalism and is a graduate of the 1995 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop; her classmates included authors Kelly Link and Nalo Hopkinson.

She has worked as a computer systems specialist, science writer, biology tutor, researcher, software reviewer, radio news editor, and bassoon instructor. In her past life as an editor, she published Dark Planet and edited for HMS Beagle. She currently produces a column for Horror World on science and technology for writers.

50-Word Biography (Poetry-Specific):

Lucy A. Snyder is the author of the Sparks and Shadows and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Her poetry has appeared in Full Unit Hookup, Strange Horizons, Chiaroscuro, Snow Monkey, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and Greatest Uncommon Denominator. She also served as a poetry editor for HMS Beagle.