Charlee Jacob is a native Texan now living in Irving with her husband and five cats. She has been a slinger of hash, an actress, a digger for dinosaur bones, and a seller of designer rags. She has had over 600 poems and stories published. Her first novel, This Symbiotic Fascination, was published by Necro in 1998 and received nominations for both The International Horror Guild Award and The Bram Stoker Award. In 1999 Necro published her first fiction collection, Dread In The Beast, and the title novella was nominated for The Stoker. The following year Delirium published a second collection, Up, Out Of Cities That Blow Hot And Cold, and this was also nominated for The Stoker. Her work has also received nominations for The Rhysling Award (from The Science Fiction Poetry Association), The Darrell Award and The Pushcart Prize.