K. D. Wentworth

K. D. (Kathy) Wentworth was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and in a subsequent dizzying tour of the nation, managed to attend thirteen different schools by the time she graduated from high school in upstate New York. Returning to Oklahoma to attend the University of Tulsa, she earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts and has had the sense to stay put ever since, although she dodges the occasional tornado. She has taught elementary school for more years than she cares to admit, and in the process has made cafeteria riot patrol into a fine art.

She got her start winning in the Writers of the Future Contest in 1988, and then later won the Field Publications Teachers as Writers Award in 1991. She has sold over fifty short stories to such markets as Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Aboriginal SF, Pulphouse, Return to the Twilight Zone, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy. She published three novels with Del Rey, The Imperium Game (February 1994), Moonspeaker, (November 1994), and House of Moons, (July 1995). Her more recent Hrrin novels Black/on/Black, and Stars Over Stars, were published by Baen in February 1999, with the sequel in 2000. Her earlier novels have been reprinted by Hawk Publishing Group and are available at bookstores or from Amazon.com. Two of her short stories have been Nebula finalists: "Tall One" and "Burning Bright."

Ms. Wentworth is an active member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, (SFWA) and was elected Secretary in July 2000. She became a Judge in the L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest in 2000 and now also serves as First Reader for the contest. She attributes her success to having a very large dog and a wonderful husband, not necessarily in that order.