Description: Jeanne Cavelos is a writer, editor, scientist, and teacher. She is also the director of Odyssey, an annual six-week summer writing workshop at New Hampshire College for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.
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I am a writer, editor, scientist, and teacher. I began my 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.
After earning my MFA in creative writing, I moved into a career in publishing, becoming a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, where I created and launched the Abyss imprint of psychological horror, for which I won the World Fantasy Award, and the Cutting Edge imprint of literary fiction. I also ran the science fiction/fantasy publishing program. In addition, I edited a wide range of fiction and nonfiction. I worked with such authors as William F. Nolan, Robert Anton Wilson, Dennis Etchison, Joan Vinge,
In 1994, I left New York to pursue my own writing career. My latest book is Invoking Darkness , the third volume in the best-selling The Passing of the Techno-Mages , a trilogy set in the Babylon 5 universe (Del Rey). The Sci-Fi Channel called the trilogy "A revelation for Babylon 5 fans. . . . Not 'television episodic' in look and feel. They are truly novels in their own right." The first volume, Casting Shadows , was called "The best Babylon 5 book to date" by About.com . My nonfiction book The Science of