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 all kinds of 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). Grab the one you like!

Lucy A. Snyder is the author of Sparks and Shadows and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. She studied to become a biologist, trained to become a journalist, and now provides computing support for a very large university.

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.

Lucy A. Snyder is the author of the books Installing Linux on a Dead Badger and Sparks and Shadows. She grew up in the cowboys-and-cactus part of Texas but currently lives in Worthington, Ohio where she writes by day and does computer support by night. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Strange Horizons, Farthing, Weird Tales, Doctor Who Short Trips: Destination Prague, Chiaroscuro, Full Unit Hookup, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.

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.

Lucy A. Snyder is the author of the fiction/poetry collection Sparks and Shadows and the humor collection Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Her writing has appeared in a wide variety of print and electronic publications, including Strange Horizons, Farthing, Weird Tales, Full Unit Hookup, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Chiaroscuro, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Doctor Who Short Trips: Destination Prague and Masques V.

Born in South Carolina, Lucy grew up in Texas and moved to Bloomington, Indiana for college. She has a BS in biology and an MA in journalism and has worked as a computer systems specialist, science writer, researcher, software reviewer, radio news editor, and bassoon instructor. In her past life as a magazine editor, she published Dark Planet and edited for Strange Horizons and HMS Beagle. She currently produces a column for Horror World on science and technology for writers.

Lucy is a graduate of the 1995 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop; her classmates included authors Kelly Link and Nalo Hopkinson. She later co-founded the Writeshop writers' workshop in Worthington, Ohio, where she currently lives with her husband and occasional co-author Gary A. Braunbeck.