At age eleven Lee Killough discovered and fell in love with SF/fantasy and Mysteries. Afraid of exhausting her favorite genres’ supply in her small hometown library, she began writing her own stories...and rather than chose between the genres, she combined them as much as possible. The habit has stuck. Approximately half of her sixteen novels are SF or supernatural mysteries or urban fantasies. Her first short story appeared in Analog in 1970, and she published her first novel in 1979. Her SF short story "Symphony for a Lost Traveler" was a 1984 Hugo Award nominee. Yard Dog Press has published her African fantasy, The Leopard’s Daughter, and a revised edition of Checking On Culture, an aid to building story backgrounds. At home in Kansas, she and her significant other Denny Riordan share their home with thousands of books and a thoroughly spoiled miniature Schnauzer. Currently in progress is an urban fantasy.