Kathryn Wesley's fiction has won the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice award, the Hugo award, the Ellery Queen Reader's Choice Award, and the Science Fiction Age Reader's Choice Award. Under her own name, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, she has published more than twenty novels. Her books have been published in seven languages and have appeared on The Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists. She is married to author Dean Wesley Smith and lives and works on the Oregon coast.