Diane Duane, Author

DIANE DUANE has been making her living writing fantasy and science fiction for more than a quarter century, and has written for Star Trek in more media than anyone else alive. Born in Manhattan, a descendant of the first Mayor of New York City after the Revolutionary War, she initially trained and worked as a psychiatric nurse; then, after the publication of her first book in 1979, spent some years living and writing on both coasts of the US before relocating to County Wicklow in Ireland, where she settled down with her husband, the Belfast-born novelist and screenwriter Peter Morwood.

Her work includes more than forty novels — a number of which have spent time on the New York Times Best-Seller List — and much television work, including story-editing stints on the DiC animated series Dinosaucers and the BBC educational series Science Challenge, a co-writer credit on the first-season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, Where No One Has Gone Before, and (most recently) another on the SciFi Channel miniseries Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King, written in collaboration with her husband.

When not writing, she conducts an active online life based around her weblog (http://outofambit.blogspot.com) , her popular "Young Wizards" novel series (www.youngwizards.com), and her European recipe collection (www.europeancuisines.com) — while also stargazing, cooking, attempting to keep the cats from eating all the herbs in the garden, and trying to figure out how to make more spare time.