Nancy Jane Moore

Nancy Jane Moore began making up stories when she discovered that some of the tales she wanted to read didn't exist. Her earliest stories involved female heroes and sword fights and were acted out in her grandmother's backyard with help from her little sister. But somewhere along the way Moore got sidetracked by law school. She practiced law in Texas and Washington, D.C., eventually running a nonprofit firm specializing in low-income housing before quitting to work as a legal editor.

She continued to play with fiction and in the early 1990s began to take her writing seriously. In 1997, she attended Clarion West. Moore's stories have appeared in a number of anthologies, several magazines, and on the Web. "Walking Contradiction," published in the anthology Imaginings (2003), made the 2004 Gaylactic Spectrum Award shortlist and "Three O'Clock in the Morning," published in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, garnered an honorable mention from The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.

Moore has trained in the martial arts for twenty-five years and holds a black belt in Aikido. Check out her self defense blog - Taking Care of Ourselves. She lives in Washington, D.C. More information can be found on her web page.