Biography
Photo by S. Shipman
I think you're supposed to do these things in third person, but then, we'd be pretending that somebody other than me was maintaining this website, and that seems sort of silly. So.
I was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1971. I share a birthday with Frodo and Bilbo Baggins. I lived in New England for 28 years, and then spent seven years near Las Vegas. I'm back in Connecticut now. I have the best job in the world and a really pushy cat, and if you want to know way too much about the daily minutia of a writer's existence, the link to my livejournal on the left over there will set you up.
If you are really curious, here are some links to interviews with me:
Subterranean Press, Summer 2007
The Future And You Podcast with me segments: February 2007, March, 2007, May 2007.
Internet Review of Science Fiction, January 2007 (free registration required)
LOCUS, Spring 2006 (this is an excerpt of a longer published interview)
.For your amusement, this is what the official bio looks like:
Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. This, coupled with a childhood tendency to read the dictionary for fun, led her inevitably to penury, intransigence, the mispronunciation of common English words, and the writing of speculative fiction.