Michael Swanwick’s fiction has been honored with the Hugo Award four out of the past five years, as well as the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards. His work has been translated and published throughout the world.

His novels include JACK FAUST, THE IRON DRAGON’S DAUGHTER, and the Nebula Award winning STATIONS OF THE TIDE. A weekly series of short-short stories, "Michael Swanwick’s Periodic Table of Science Fiction," one story for every element in the periodic table, is currently running online at Sci Fiction (www.scifi.com/scifiction). Another weekly series, one short-short to accompany each of the eighty etchings in Goya’s "Los Caprichos" is running at The Infinite Matrix (www.infinitematrix.net).

Swanwick lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter. The paperback of his newest novel, BONES OF THE EARTH, about dinosaurs, time travel and the fate of humanity, is currently available from HarperCollins Eos.