About Melissa Scott
Melissa Scott has published more than 30 original novels and a handful of short stories, most with queer themes and characters, as well as authorized tie-ins for Star Wars, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate SG-1, and Stargate Atlantis. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1986, and Lambda Literary Awards for Trouble and Her Friends, Shadow Man, Point of Dreams (written with longtime partner and collaborator, the late Lisa A. Barnett), and Death by Silver, written with Amy Griswold. She has also been shortlisted for the Tiptree Award. She has won Spectrum Awards for Shadow Man, for the short story "The Rocky Side of the Sky," Death by Silver, and Fairs' Point.