Gwyneth Jones

Gwyneth Jones was born in Manchester, England, studied at a local convent school and then at the University of Sussex, where she took an undergraduate degree in History of Ideas, specialising in seventeenth century Europe, which gave her a taste for studying the structure of scientific revolutions, and societies in phase transition, a background that still resonates in her work. In the eighties she spent two years in gainful employment, writing scripts for a tv cartoon series called The Telebugs (which now gives her a curious cult status with twenty-something UK fans). Since then, she’s been writing (and occasionally teaching creative writing) full time. She's written more than twenty novels for teenagers, mostly using the pseudonym Ann Halam, and several highly regarded science fiction novels for adults, notably the Aleutian Trilogy, White Queen (co-winner of the James Tiptree Memorial Award); North Wind and Phoenix Café. Bold As Love, the first novel of a sequence tackling pop-culture in the near future, won the Arthur C. Clarke award for 2001. Her short story collection 'Seven Tales And A Fable’ won two World Fantasy Awards, 1996. Her critical writings and essays (Deconstructing The Starships) have been published by the Liverpool University Press.