Author Biography and Bibliography

M. Shayne Bell has published short fiction in Asimov's, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Tomorrow, Amazing Stories, Gothic.Net, Interzone, Science Fiction Age, and Realms of Fantasy, plus numerous anthologies, including The Year's Best Science Fiction #6, The Best of Writers of the Future, Starlight 2, Future Earths: Under African Skies, Simulations: Fifteen Tales of Virtual Reality, Isaac Asimov's Mother's Day, War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, and Vanishing Acts. He published stories in each of the three Star Wars short story anthologies. His short story "Mrs. Lincoln's China" (Asimov's, July 1994) was a 1995 Hugo Award finalist.

Bell is author of the novel, Nicoji (Baen Books, 1990), and editor of the anthology, Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor (Signature Books, 1993), for which he received an AML award for editorial excellence. In 1991 he received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Bell has also published poetry in a number of venues, including Asimov's, Amazing Stories, and Once Upon a Midnight, an anthology commemorating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven." His poem "One Hundred Years of Russian Revolution" (Amazing Stories, 1989) was a Science Fiction Poetry Association Rhysling Award finalist. He worked for six years as poetry editor of Sunstone magazine.

Bell holds a master's degree in English literature from Brigham Young University. He enjoys hiking, backpacking, and climbing. He has backpacked through Haleakala Volcano on Maui, from the summit to the sea, retracing an expedition Jack London went on at the turn of the last century. In the fall of 1996 Bell joined an eight-day expedition to the top of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa (19,340'). He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.





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