In 1996, she created Sound & Spirit, PRI’s award-winning national public radio series. Upon moving to Boston, she became a radio host for WGBH-FM. Her stories have been translated into a wide variety of languages, including Japanese, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Latvian and Finnish. In addition, her short fiction appears regularly in numerous anthologies. In 2015, Thomas the Rhymer was published in the UK as part of the Gollancz “Fantasy Masterworks” line. Swordspoint was followed by Thomas the Rhymer (World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award), and two more novels in her “Riverside” series. She began her career in publishing as a fiction editor in New York City, but left to write her first novel Swordspoint, which has become a cult classic, hailed as the progenitor of the “mannerpunk” (or “Fantasy of Manners”) school of urban fantasy. In addition, her short fiction appears regularly Ellen Kushner weaves together multiple careers as a writer, radio host, teacher, performer and public speaker.Ī graduate of Barnard College, she also attended Bryn Mawr College, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.

A graduate of Barnard College, she also attended Bryn Mawr College, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Ellen Kushner weaves together multiple careers as a writer, radio host, teacher, performer and public speaker.

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner