L. Timmel Duchamp is the author of Love's Body, Dancing in Time, a collection of short fiction; The Grand Conversation: Essays; The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding), a short novel; and Alanya to Alanya Renegade, and Tsunami, the first three novels of the Marq?ssan Cycle. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and Sturgeon awards and short-listed several times for the Tiptree Award. Her stories have appeared in a variety of venues, including Asimov's SF and the Full Spectrum, Leviathan, ParaSpheres, and Bending the Landscape anthology series. Her critical essays have appeared in The American Book Review, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Extrapolation, Foundation, Strange Horizons, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.