Sharon Lee is an American

United States

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 writer. She is the co-author (with Steve Miller

Steve Miller (writer)

Steve Miller is the grandson of poet and WBAL radio personality Dorothea Neale. He graduated from Reisterstown, Maryland's Franklin Senior High School in 1968 after learning how to make chapbooks as editor of the school’s literary magazine, Junto.- Biography :Steve attended University of Maryland,...

) of the Liaden universe

Liaden universe

The Liaden universe is the setting for an ongoing series of science fiction stories written by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. The series covers a considerable time period, some thousands of years in all, although since it also covers more than one universe the exact chronology is unclear...

 novels and stories, as well as other works, and individually the author of two mystery novels.

Biography

Born Sharon Lee Backof, Sharon graduated from Parkville Senior High School in 1970, and attended University of Maryland, Baltimore County during the late '70s while employed as Administrative Aide to the Dean of the School of Social Work and Community Planning at the UMAB Professional Schools in downtown Baltimore.

Throughout her life, Sharon has been employed as various flavors of secretary, as well as advertising copywriter, call-in talk hostess, nightside news copy editor, freelance reporter, photographer, book reviewer, and deliverer of tractor trailers. Beginning in August 1997, she served three years as the executive director of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, or SFWA is a nonprofit association of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. It was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the acronym SFWA after a very brief use of the SFFWA...

, and was subsequently elected vice president, then president of that organization.

Sharon's first professional fiction publication was "A Matter of Ceremony," Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction...

, 1980. In addition to her contributions to the Liaden Universe, she has written two Maine-based mystery novels—Barnburner and Gunshy, published by SRM Publisher, Ltd—and more than a dozen short stories.

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller were married in 1980. In 1988, they relocated to Central Maine.

Liaden Universe novels

(coauthored with Steve Miller

Steve Miller (writer)

Steve Miller is the grandson of poet and WBAL radio personality Dorothea Neale. He graduated from Reisterstown, Maryland's Franklin Senior High School in 1968 after learning how to make chapbooks as editor of the school’s literary magazine, Junto.- Biography :Steve attended University of Maryland,...

)

Agent of Change Sequence

• Agent of Change (1988)
• Conflict of Honors (1988)
• Carpe Diem (1989)
• Plan B (1999)
• I Dare (2002)
• Partners in Necessity (Omnibus edition of Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors, and Carpe Diem) (2000)
• Local Custom (2002)
• Scout's Progress (2002)
• Pilot's Choice (Omnibus edition of Local Custom and Scout's Progress) (2001)
• The Dragon Variation (Omnibus edition of Local Custom, Scout's Progress and Conflict of Honors) (2010)
• Korval's Game (Omnibus edition of Plan B and I Dare) (2011)

The Great Migration Duology

• Crystal Soldier (2005)
• Crystal Dragon (2006)
• The Crystal Variation (Omnibus edition of Crystal Soldier, Crystal Dragon and Balance of Trade) (20110901)

Other Liad novels

• Balance of Trade (2004)
• Fledgling (2009)
• Saltation (2010)
• Mouse and Dragon (2010)
• Ghost Ship (2011)

Other novels

• The Tomorrow Log (2003)
• Sword of Orion (2005)
• Duainfey (Baen, 2008)
• Longeye (Baen, 2009)

External links

• Official forum at IBDoF