Lucius Taylor Shepard was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1947. He travelled extensively in his youth, and has held a wide assortment of occupations in the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia and Latin America, including rock musician and night club bouncer. He attended the Clarion Writers' Workshop in 1980 and made his first commercial sale a year later. His work covers many areas of fantastic fiction and has recently encompassed non-fiction, as well. For over a decade, he has contributed a regular column on science fiction cinema for THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. Lucius Shepard has won numerous prizes for his work, including the HUGO, NEBULA, WORLD FANTASY, THEODORE STURGEON and INTERNATIONAL HORROR GUILD AWARDs. He lives in Vancouver, Washington.