Carolyn Ives Gilman

Carolyn Ives Gilman is a Hugo and Nebula Award nominated author of science fiction and fantasy. Her books include Dark Orbit, a space exploration adventure; Isles of the Forsaken and Ison of the Isles, a two-book fantasy about culture clash and revolution; and Halfway Human, a novel about gender and oppression. Her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Interzone, Realms of Fantasy, and others. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages and appeared in numerous Best Science Fiction of the Year anthologies.

Gilman lives in Washington, D.C., and currently works as a freelance writer and museum consultant. She spent decades as a museum exhibition developer, ending at the National Museum of the American Indian. She is also author of several nonfiction books about North American frontier and Native history.