Author Biography and Bibliography

Ellen Klages divides her time between Cleveland, Ohio, and anywhere else.

She has written four books of hands-on science activities for children (with Pat Murphy et al.) for the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco. The second book in that series, The Science Explorer Out and About, was honored with Scientific American's Young Readers Book Award.

Her short fiction has appeared in two Bending the Landscape anthologies, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel, as well as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Black Gate, and StrangeHorizons.com. Several of her stories have been on the final ballot for the Nebula and Hugo Awards and have been reprinted in David Hartwell's Year's Best Fantasy Nos. 3 and 4. She was also a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award, and is a graduate of the Clarion South writing workshop.

She has recently sold her first novel, Green Glass Sea, about two eleven-year-old girls living in Los Alamos during the war, while mom and dad are building the Bomb.

In addition to her writing, she also serves on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and is somewhat notorious as the auctioneer/entertainment for the Tiptree auctions. When she's not writing fiction, she sells old toys on eBay and collects lead civilians.

Her sister Sally, now 44, has Down syndrome.





Photo by Michael Benvenist.