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Ellen Kushner is an award-winning fantasy author, poet, and editor, born in Washington, DC.

Her first novel, Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners, and its sequel (with Delia Sherman), The Fall of the Kings, are bawdy, complex fantasies set among the intrigues of power-hungry aristocrats and swordsmen-for-hire in an imaginary city in a different Europe from the one we know. A third volume in the series, The Privilege of the Sword, is forthcoming.

Kushner's second novel Thomas the Rhymer (1990), based on the ballad "True Thomas and the Queen of Elfland", won the Mythopoeic and World Fantasy Awards.

Kushner edited the early mythic fantasy anthology Basilisk (1984) and co-edited The Horns of Elfland (1997) with Delia Sherman and Donald G. Keller.

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