Stephanie Shaver

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Stephanie Diane Shaver (b. 1975) is an American fantasy writer and game developer.

She sold her first professional short story to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series when she was 13. Her work has also been featured in various Valdemar anthologies, edited by Mercedes Lackey.

She is an active member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), the youngest member to ever join the association, and has also been a member of the Authors Guild. She gives talks about being a professional writer at fan conventions such as Dragon*Con and Archon. She worked for over a year at Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, and worked on two "Fantasy Worlds" Festivals as part of the committee and the program book editor. She has done interviews with the likes of Tanya Huff and Jennifer Roberson.

Shaver currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri, where she works as a game designer for Simutronics, having helped build online games such as DragonRealms, GemStone IV, Alliance of Heroes, and Hero's Journey.

[edit] Works

Shaver's work has appeared in the following anthologies:

  • "At the Tolling of Midnight" - Sword and Sorceress VII, 1990, Marion Zimmer Bradley (ed.) ISBN 0-88677-457-8
  • "Shards of Crystal" - Sword and Sorceress VII, 1991, Marion Zimmer Bradley (ed.) ISBN 0-88677-486-1
  • "Circle of Ashes" - Lammas Night, 1996, Mercedes Lackey, ed. ISBN 0-671-87713-5
  • Valdemar Short Story Collections, edited by Mercedes Lackey
  • "Empty Jar, Empty Chest" - 100 Wicked Witch Stories, 2003, edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert A. Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg. ISBN 1-4027-0976-5

[edit] References

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