Her short stories have appeared in Greystone Bay, Doom City (Greystone Bay II), Fantasy Tales, the Post Mortem anthology, Pulphouse 5, The Horror Show, Freak Show (HWA anthology), A Confederacy of Horrors, Into The Fog, The Ultimate Witch, and Phobias. Editions of her books have appeared in England, Japan, Norway, Sweden and Germany. She has also edited three anthologies, the critically acclaimed Women of Darkness and its companion Women of Darkness II (both Tor), and Women of the West (Doubleday). Her dark fantasy have won the Silver Medal and Gold Medal awards given by the West Coast Review of Books. As Les Simons, Kathryn Atwood, Anne Mayfield, Kathleen Maxwell, Kathryn Ptacek, and Kathryn Grant, she has written an historical fantasy series, numerous historical romances, and five horror novels. of Speech and Hearing, then for the University's Computing Center as their only technical writer and editor.Īfter the sale of her first novel, an historical romance, in July 1979, she quit to become a full-time novelist. of Retarded People, and spent two years as an advertising lay-out artist for a regional grocery warehouse co-op, and then worked for the University of New Mexico first as a secretary in the Dept. Afterward, she worked briefly for a political party best left unnamed, was a telephone solicitor for the New Mexico Assn. While attending the university, she was a student of award-winning mystery writer Tony Hillerman and well-known YA writer Lois Duncan. in Journalism, with a minor in history, from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where she was graduated with distinction in 1974.

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Blood Autumn by Kathryn Ptacek