Protected: IX*–Annual SF Art Celebration Brightens the Rust Belt

After wandering for forty years in the desert of financial services marketing, Susan Shwartz returned to her first love, writing fantasy and science fiction. A five-time nominee for the Nebula, a two-time nominee for the Hugo, with nominations for the World Fantasy Award, the Philip K. Dick, and the Edgar, Susan has published around thirty books, including anthologies, science fiction, historical fantasy, and STAR TREK. Susan has also published about 100 short stories, novelettes and novellas and published nonfiction in THE NEW YORK TIMES, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, and ANALOG. About four stories are scheduled for release in the next year or so on subjects as diverse as the Soviet Space Program, Anna Comnena, and a two-state solution to climbing Mount Everest. She holds a Ph.D. in English (medieval) from Harvard University, for which she earned 100 percent of her expenses. She now collects SF art and loves the opera, the theatre, and travel. She and her partner live in exurban Connecticut among the deer, the rabbits, and the very occasional bobcat.