Carolyn Ives Gilman has been publishing science fiction and fantasy foralmost twenty years. Her first novel, Halfway Human, published by Avon/Eosin 1998, was called “one of the most compelling explorations of genderand power in recent SF” by Locus magazine.

In her professional career, Gilman is a historian specializing in 18th andearly 19th-century North American history, particularly frontier and Nativehistory. 

 Carolyn Ives Gilman lives in St. Louis and works for the MissouriHistorical Society as a historian and museum curator.