Jeanne Cavelos is a writer, editor, scientist, and teacher. She began her professional life as an astrophysicist and mathematician, teaching astronomy at Michigan State University and Cornell University, and working in the Astronaut Training Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Her love of science fiction led her to earn her MFA in creative writing. Jeanne moved into a career in publishing, becoming a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, where she created and launched the Abyss imprint of psychological horror, for which she won the World Fantasy Award, and the Cutting Edge imprint of literary fiction. Jeanne also ran the science fiction/fantasy publishing program. In addition, she edited a wide range of fiction and nonfiction. Jeanne worked with such authors as William F. Nolan, Robert Anton Wilson, Dennis Etchison, Joan Vinge, Tanith Lee, Kathe Koja, Poppy Z. Brite, J.M. Dillard, David Wingrove, Barry Gifford, Patrick McCabe, Syd Field, Phil Farrand, and Peter Dickinson.
In 1994, Jeanne left New York to pursue her own writing career. Her first published book, the Babylon 5 novel The Shadow Within (Dell), has been reissued by Del Rey with a new cover. Two of Jeanne’s nonfiction books, The Science of Star Wars (St. Martin’s) and The Science of The X-Files (Berkley), received high praise. Her last novel to hit the stores was Invoking Darkness, the third volume in her best-selling The Passing of the Techno-Mages, a trilogy set in the Babylon 5 universe (Del Rey). Recent works include the novella “Negative Space” (which was given honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction), in the anthology Decalog 5: Wonders (Virgin Publishing), and several essays analyzing real-world issues from the TV shows 24 and Farscape as well as Star Wars. Jeanne is currently at work writing a near-future science thriller about genetic manipulation, titled Fatal Spiral.
The Many Faces of Van Helsing, an anthology Jeanne edited, was published by Berkley in 2004 and was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Berkley is releasing a mass market paperback edition in October 2008.
Since she loves working with developing writers, Jeanne created and serves as director of Odyssey, an annual six-week summer writing workshop for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester. Odyssey is a place where developing writers can focus on their craft and receive detailed, in-depth feedback on their work. Guest lecturers have included George R. R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, Terry Brooks, Ben Bova, Jane Yolen, and Dan Simmons. During the school year, Jeanne is an English lecturer at Saint Anselm College, where she teaches writing and literature.
Jeanne has lectured widely on topics such as the latest scientific discoveries and their implications, the relationship between science and science fiction, the writing process, and the publishing industry. She’s spoken at venues as varied as the Smithsonian Institute, the United States Air Force Revolutionary Technologies Division, the American Chemical Society, Dartmouth College, the Intel International Science Fair, the Discovery Channel, the Sci-Fi Channel, the History Channel, Turner Entertainment, the Art Bell radio program, and many radio shows, bookstores, and conventions. Jeanne is featured on the History Channel show Star Wars Tech, which they rerun periodically.
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