Stephanie A. Smith took her PhD at Berkeley in 1990 is currently a professor of English at the University of Florida. She has published three SF/F novels, Snow-Eyes, The Boy Who Was Thrown Away (Atheneum 1985, 1987), Other Nature (MacMillan, 1995), two works of criticism, Conceived By Liberty (Cornell 1995) and Household Words (Minnesota, 2006) along with a number of essays and short stories.Currently, her new literary trilogy, WARPAINT, BABY ROCKET and CONTENT BURNS is being published by Thames River Press in London. She has held fiction residencies at Dorland, Norcroft and Hedgebrook, and has worked at Provincetown Fine Arts Center, and was a student of both Ursula K. Le Guin and Michael Cunningham.