Carol Severance is a U.S. science fiction

Science fiction

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 writer, born in 1944.

Life

Severance grew up in Denver

Denver, Colorado

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, Colorado

Colorado

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. She served with the Peace Corps

Peace Corps

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 from 1966-1968 and later assisted in anthropological fieldwork in the remote coral atolls of Truk, Micronesia

Micronesia

Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct from Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the east. The Philippines lie to the west, and Indonesia to the southwest....

. She lives in Hilo, Hawaii

Hawaii

Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

 where she lives with her husband, former Peace Corps volunteer Craig J. Severance.

Writing

Much of Severance's writing includes references to Pacific Island lore and lifestyle.

Island Warrior series

1. Demon Drums (1992)
2. Storm Caller (1993)
3. Sorcerous Sea (1993)

Other novels

• Reefsong (1991) - Compton Crook Award
  Compton Crook Award
  The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best first novel of the year in the field of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Inc, at their annual Baltimore-area science fiction convention, Balticon, held on Memorial Day weekend in the...
  
   winner for best first novel of 1991.

Short stories

• "Day of Strange Fortune" (1987)
• "Isle of Illusion" (1987)
• "Shark-Killer" (1988)
• "Whispering Cane" (1990)

Anthologies containing her work

• Magic in Ithkar 4
  Magic in Ithkar 4
  Magic in Ithkar 4 is an shared world anthology of fantasy stories edited by Andre Norton and Robert Adams. It was first published as a paperback by Tor Books in July 1987....
  
  (1987)
• Tales of the Witch World 3 (1990)

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