Kelley Eskridge's short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Century, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Nebula Awards 31, Little Deaths, and the upcoming Sirens and other Daemon Lovers. Her story "Alien Jane" was a Nebula Award finalist, and her story "And Salome Danced" was a finalist for the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award. Her first novel, Solitaire, is forthcoming in 1999 from Avon. She lives in Seattle with her partner, novelist Nicola Griffith.