Lightspeed, September 2013

1960-08-03

16 September 1952

**Lisa Tuttle** was born and raised in the United States, spent ten years in London, and now lives in a remote part of the Scottish highlands. She began writing while still at school, sold her first stories while at university, and won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer of the year in 1974. Her first novel, *Windhaven* (1981) was cowritten with George R. R. Martin. Her most recent work is the contemporary fantasy *The Silver Bough* (2006). Tuttle has written at least a hundred short stories, as well as essays, reviews, nonfiction, and books for children and young adults.