ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Elizabeth Bear shares a birthday with Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, and very narrowly avoided being named after Peregrine Took. This, coupled with a tendency to read the dictionary as a child, doomed her early to penury, intransigence, friendlessness, and the writing of speculative fiction. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up in central Connecticut, with the exception of two years (which she was too young to remember very well) spent in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, in the last house with electricity before the Canadian border. She attended the University of Connecticut, where her favorite classes were geology and archaeology, although she majored in English and anthropology.
After six years in southern Nevada, she is currently in the process of relocating to Michigan, where messages from travelers report trees and snow.
Elizabeth has been at various times employed at: a stable, a self-funded campus newspaper, the microbiology department of a 1,000-bed inner-city hospital, a media monitoring service, a quick-print shop, an archaeological survey company, a doughnut shop (third shift), a commercial roofing material sales company, and an import-export business, with a somewhat flexible attitude toward paperwork among her achievements.
She's a second-generation Swede, a third-generation Ukrainian, and a third-generation Hutzul, with some Irish, English, Scots, Cherokee, and German thrown in for leavening. Elizabeth Bear is her real name, but not all of it. Her dogs outweigh her, and she is much beset by her cats.