Elisabeth Waters is an American fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 author.

She won the Gryphon award in 1989 for her first novel Changing Fate. Since then, she has published a large number of short stories, some in the anthology series Sword and Sorceress

Sword and Sorceress series

The Sword and Sorceress series is a series of fantasy anthologies edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and originally published by DAW Books. As she explained in the foreword to the first volume, she created the anthology to redress the lack of strong female protagonists in the sub-genre of sword and...

, which she now edits.

Biography

Around 1985 she began working for Marion Zimmer Bradley, which she continued to do until after Bradley's death in 1999, finishing up the anthologies in progress at the time.

She is a Lifetime Active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

She also worked as a supernumerary for the San Francisco Opera from 1983 until 1989, where she appeared in La Gioconda (twice), Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Khovanschina, Das Rheingold (twice), Werther, and Idomeneo.

Novels

• Changing Fate. DAW, 1994. ISBN 0-88677-608-2
• Lady of the Trillium (with Marion Zimmer Bradley). Bantam Spectra, 1995. ISBN 0-553-09299-5

Anthologies

• Sword And Sorceress XXII. (Norilana Books
  Norilana Books
  Norilana Books is an independent publishing company, founded in August 2006 and based in Los Angeles, California. It is operated and owned by Vera Nazarian. Norilana publishes reprints of previously published Science Fiction and Fantasy works, including the novels of Modean Moon...
  
  ), 2007.
• Sword And Sorceress XXIII. (Norilana Books
  Norilana Books
  Norilana Books is an independent publishing company, founded in August 2006 and based in Los Angeles, California. It is operated and owned by Vera Nazarian. Norilana publishes reprints of previously published Science Fiction and Fantasy works, including the novels of Modean Moon...
  
  ), 2008.
• Sword And Sorceress XXIV. (Norilana Books
  Norilana Books
  Norilana Books is an independent publishing company, founded in August 2006 and based in Los Angeles, California. It is operated and owned by Vera Nazarian. Norilana publishes reprints of previously published Science Fiction and Fantasy works, including the novels of Modean Moon...
  
  ), 2009.
• Sword And Sorceress XXV. (Norilana Books
  Norilana Books
  Norilana Books is an independent publishing company, founded in August 2006 and based in Los Angeles, California. It is operated and owned by Vera Nazarian. Norilana publishes reprints of previously published Science Fiction and Fantasy works, including the novels of Modean Moon...
  
  ), 2010.

Short fiction

• "The Sixth String" (2009)
• "Scam Artistry" (2008) with Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...
  
  
• "A Capella" (1994)
• "A Dragon in Distress" (1995) with Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...
  
  
• "A Meeting of Minds" (1991)
• "A Prince Among Frogs" (1996)
• "A Proper Escort" (1991)
• "A Woman's Privilege"(1986) published in Sword And Sorceress III ISBN 0-88677-302-4)
• "Blood Calls to Blood" (1995)
• "Change-child" (1998)
• "Child of the Heart" (1985)
• "Cold Spell" (1985)
• "Connecticut" (1994) with Raul S. Reyes
• "Destined for the Tower" (1993) with Deborah Wheeler (a.k.a. Deborah J. Ross
  Deborah J. Ross
  Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...
  
  )
• "Firetrap" (1990) with Marion Zimmer Bradley
• "Golden Vanity" (1988)
• "Gunnora's Gift" (1990)
• "Ice Princess" (1994)
• "Midsummer Folly" (1996)
• "Our Father's Gold" (1996)
• "Out of the Frying Pan" (1991)
• "Playfellow" (1987)
• "Rebirth" (1982)
• "Shadowlands" (1990)
• "Sin Catenas" (1988)
• "Tell Me a Story" (1983)
• "The Alton Gift" (1980)
• "The Birthday Gift" (1992)
• "The Blade of Unmaking" (1997)
• "The Dragon's Horde" (1998) with Raul S. Reyes
• "The Lesser Twin" (1990)
• "The School Up the Hill" (1997)
• "Things That Go Grump in the Night" (1989)
• "Trees of Avalon" (1996)
• "Weather Witch" (1990)

External links

• Interview with Elisabeth Waters