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Michael Swanwick (b. 1950) was born in Schenectady, New York. Committed to being a writer at age seventeen, he attended the College of William and Mary in Virginia but graduated with no marketable skills. Settling in Philadelphia, he finished his first story when he was twenty-nine. It didn’t sell, but every story he has written since has. His first two published stories were both Nebula Award finalists. He has since been honored with five Hugo Awards, the Nebula Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award and World Fantasy Award, as well as receiving nominations for the British Science Fiction Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. One of the most acclaimed science fiction and fantasy writers of his generation, Swanwick’s novels include In the Drift, Vacuum Flowers, Griffin’s Egg, Stations of the Tide, The Iron Dragon’s Daughter, Jack Faust and Bones of the Earth. His stories have appeared in Omni, Penthouse, Amazing, Asimov’s Science Fiction, High Times, New Dimensions, Starlight, Universe, Full Spectrum, Triquarterly and elsewhere. Many have been reprinted in “Best of the Year” anthologies, and his short fiction has been collected in Gravity’s Angels, A Geography of Imaginary Lands, Moon Dogs, and Tales of Old Earth.