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Elizabeth Hand (b.March 29, 1957) was born in California and grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She received a B.A. in cultural anthropology and playwriting from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where she lived from 1975 until 1988, when she moved to the coast of Maine and bought a 300-square-foot lakefront cottage with no running water or indoor plumbing. Her acclaimed novels include Winterlong, Aestival Tide, Icarus Descending, Waking the Moon, Glimmering, Black Light and Mortal Love, along with numerous film novelizations and media tie-ins. Hand’s short fiction has been collected in Last Summer at Mars Hill and Bibliomancy, while with her friend Paul Witcover, she created and wrote the influential 1990s post-punk DC Comics series Anima. Her work has received two World Fantasy Awards, two International Horror Guild Awards, the Nebula Award, James M. Tiptree Jr. Award and Mythopeoic Society Award, as well as an Individual Artist’s Fellowship in Literature from the Maine Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hand is a long-time contributor of reviews and essays to the Washington Post, among many other magazines and newspapers, including the Village Voice and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. She has two teenage children, and is currently working on a novel entitled Generation Loss.