Beth Bernobich is the author of four novels in the Erythandra series: Passion Play (Tor, October 2010), Queen's Hunt (Tor, 2011), Allegiance (Tor, 2012), and The Edge of the Empire (Tor, 2013), as well as Fox and Phoenix (YA fantasy, forthcoming from Viking Children's Books, 2011), and The Time Roads (alternate history, forthcoming from Tor). Her short story collection A Handful of Pearls & Other Stories recently appeared from Lethe Press, and her novella Ars Memoriae (PS Publishing, December 2009) appeared as a limited edition hardcover chapbook, with an introduction from Kage Baker. Her novelette "The Golden Octopus" (Postscripts, August 2008) was on the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2008, and appeared in 2009: The Year's Best SF & Fantasy (Prime Books). Her novelette "Air and Angels" (Subterranean Online, Spring 2008) appeared in Unplugged: The Year's Best Online Fiction 2009 (Wyrm Publishing). Her novelette "A Flight of Numbers Fantastique Strange" (Asimov's, June 2006) was on the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2006. Her short story "Poison" (Strange Horizons, January 2003) was a finalist for the 2004 Gaylactic Spectrum Award. Her other short fiction has appeared in Baen's Universe, Interzone, Magic in the Mirrorstone, and Sex in the System, among other places.

She lives in Bethany, CT with her husband, son, and two very dim cats. She makes her living swearing at code.