ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ellen Kushner is a novelist, performer, and public radio personality. Her work includes the weekly national public radio series PRI’s Sound & Spirit with Ellen Kushner, the recording The Golden Dreydl: a Klezmer ‘Nutcracker’ for Chanukah (Rykodisc CD) and a live performance piece, Esther: the Feast of Masks. Her novels Swordspoint and (with Delia Sherman) The Fall of the Kings share a setting and quite a few characters with The Privilege of the Sword. She is a member of Terri Windling’s Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts and co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation. She lives in New York City and travels a lot, giving shows and readings, lecturing, and teaching. You can keep up with her whereabouts and learn more about Riverside and its denizens at www.EllenKushner.com.