Author Biography and Bibliography

Lisa Tuttle has been writing professionally since the 1970s. Winner of the John W. Campbell Award in 1974, she has been crossing genre borders ever since, writing science fiction, horror, fantasy, erotica, and children's fiction.

Windhaven, her first novel, was written in collaboration with George R. R. Martin and originally published in 1981; it is scheduled to be reissued by Bantam in 2001. Her next two novels, Familiar Spirit and Gabriel, were horror; Lost Futures (1992) was a return to science fiction (although, confusingly, published on a horror list in the US), and The Pillow Friend (1996) combined horror and fantasy elements with mainstream literary concerns.

Short stories are her first love. So far, she's had three collections of her own stories published, has edited two anthologies, and has at least thirty more published but as yet uncollected short stories out there.

During the past five years Lisa Tuttle has been concentrating mainly on writing for children and young adults, with eight books published so far in Britain.

A native of Texas (where she was a founder member of the famous Turkey City group along with Howard Waldrop, Steven Utley, Tom Reamy, Joe Pumilia, and others), Lisa Tuttle went on to spend ten years in London, and now lives in the west highlands of Scotland with her husband and daughter.

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Photo by Colin Murray.