Tim Pratt

Tim Pratt lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Heather Shaw and their son River. In addition to his novels, his fiction and poetry have appeared in venues such as The Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, Asimov's, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Subterranean, and Tor.com. He has also edited speculative fiction anthologies. Pratt's works have won a Hugo Award, a Romantic Times Critic's Choice Award for best Modern Fantasy, and an Emperor Norton Award; and have been nominated for a Nebula Award, Stoker Award, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, Mythopoeic Award, a couple of Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, a Seiun Award, a Scribe Award, and two Ignotus Awards, among others. In 2004 he was a finalist for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. By day he works as senior editor at Locus magazine, where, among other things, he writes the obituaries.