Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay was born in Weyburn and raised in Winnipeg. In 1974-75, he assisted Christopher Tolkien with the editing of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion. Guy Kay studied law at the University of Toronto and was admitted to the Bar in Ontario in 1981. He worked both as script consultant and principal writer for CBC Radio's award-winning series The Scales of Justice. He and his family live in Toronto.

Paul Kearney
Paul Kearney was born and grew up in Northern Ireland. He lived for some years in Copenhagen before moving to the United States with his wife. As well as the first three books in The Monarchies of God saga, Hawkwood's Voyage, The Heretic Kings and The Iron Wars, he has written The Way to Babylon, A Different Kingdom and Riding the Unicorn, all published by Gollancz. He and his wife have moved back to the UK and are living in Cambridge.

James Patrick Kelly
Kelly is the author of a number of science fiction novels, including Wildlife and the critically aclaimed Look Into the Sun. His site is rich with fiction, essays, and novel excerpts.

Photo by Beverly Dubin.
Katharine Kerr
Kerr is the author of the popular Deverry series of fantasy novels which started with Daggerspell, and continued with Darkspell, The Bristling Wood, The Dragon Revenant, and several others, all from Bantam/Doubleday/Dell. Her Westlands series includes the A Time of Exile and A Time of Omens. She is also the author of the SF novel Polar City Blues (Bantam Spectra/Grafton Books) and the editor of the recent anthology The Shimmering Door. The Deverry home page is another excellent resource for fans of Kerr's creations.

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John Kessel
Kessel is the author of Another Orphan (1982), Freedom Beach (with James Patrick Kelly, 1985) Good News From Outer Space (1989), Meeting In Infinity (1992), and Corrupting Dr. Nice (1997), as well as many articles and plays.

Caitlín R. Kiernan
Born in Ireland, Caitlín R. Kiernan spent most of her life in the southeastern US. Originally trained as a paleontologist, she began writing fiction on a full-time basis in 1992. Her short fiction has appeared in such anthologies as The Sandman: Book of Dreams, Lethal Kisses, Dark Terrors 2 and Dark Terrors 3. She began writing comics in 1996 with work on DC Comics' The Dreaming. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

Stephen King
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. He attended the grammar school in Durham, Maine and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, with a B.S. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. He met his wife, Tabitha, in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University of Maine of Orono, where they both worked as students. Unable to find a teaching job, the couple lived on his earnings as a labourer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines. In the fall of 1971, King began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted his novel Carrie for publication. A few months later, its paperback sale provided him with the means to leave teaching and write full-time.

Mark Kreighbaum
Mark Kreighbaum is the co-author with Katharine Kerr of PALACE, a novel of the Pinch. His website, Tiny Brain Enterprises, is innovative and fun. Check it out.

Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1948. She went to college at State University of New York at Plattsburgh, receiving a degree in Elementary Education, and spent four years teaching the fourth grade. Her first sale was a story, "The Earth Dwellers," to Galaxy in 1976. Her first novel, The Prince of Morning Bells, appeared in 1981. Nancy Kress moved on to write copy for an advertising agency, wrote fiction part-time, raised her children, taught at SUNY Brockport, and earned an M.S. in Education and an M.A. in English. In 1990 she became a full-time writer. In January, 1998, she was married for the third time, to SF writer Charles Sheffield.

Katherine Kurtz
Born in Florida, Katherine Kurtz attended the University of Miami and, later, UCLA. She went on to work as a designer for the Los Angeles Police Academy. Her best-known work, the Deryni series, ranks near the top of modern fantasy fiction. Ms. Kurtz lives in a gothic revival house in County Wicklow, Ireland, with her husband, author Scott MacMillan.

Ellen Kushner
Ellen Kushner has written two novels, Swordspoint and Thomas the Rhymer, which won both a World Fantasy Award and a Mythopoeic Award for best novel of 1990.