Sylvia Kelso

Sylvia Kelso lives in North Queensland, Australia. She writes fantasy and SF often set in analogue or alternate Australian settings. She has published six high fantasy novels, two of which, *Amberlight* and *The Moving Water*, were finalists for best fantasy novel of the year in the Australian Aurealis genre fiction awards. The third Amberlight novel, *Source*, was released in 2010. Her most recent novel-length work is the contemporary fantasy duo of Blackston Gold, *The Solitaire Ghost* and *The Time Seam* released by Fivestar Books in 2011.

Sylvia Kelso's short fiction has appeared in Australian and US anthologies, including *Love and Rockets* from DAW in 2010 and *Beyond Grimm: Tales Newly Twisted* from Bookview Cafe in 2012. Her short story "The Honor of the Ferrocarril" in *Gears and Levers 3* was released in June 2013 by Skywarriors Books, and "Spring in Geneva," a novella-length riff on *Frankenstein*, from Aqueduct Press in October 2013. "The Price of Kush" for the US anthology *Griots: Sisters of the Spear* was released as an ebook in December 2013. Her most recent short story release is "Crow" in the Spring Equinox 2014 issue of *Eternal Haunted Summer* e-zine.http://www.sylviakelso.com.