Kit Reed has two novels coming out soon—The Night Children, her first-ever novel for young readers, coming this fall from Tor, and Enclave, a novel for grownups, also from Tor. Enclave is about a sealed mountaintop academy in which . . . Well. Look for it in February. She's published some 20 novels and dozens of short stories, with two scheduled in anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow and one in the Kenyon Review. If there is such a thing as a slipstream, she slips in and out of it, in genre-bending novels and stories of all kinds. She just writes them and waits to see which editors like what she does. She says, "You go where they'll take you," which includes the Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature and The Yale Review, so who's to say? There's a link to a pretty complete bibliography on her page with more on her new novel, at www.kitreed.net.

Her most recent novel, The Baby Merchant (Tor, 2006) is a near-future thriller about a Robin Hood who steals babies. Thinner Than Thou (Tor, 2004) won an A.L.A. Alex award. Her first novel for Tom Doherty Associates was @expectations (Forge 2000). Along with Dogs of Truth (Tor, 2005), her most recent collection, Thinner Than Thou and The Baby Merchant are now available in trade paperback. A horror novel, Bronze, came out in November, 2005 from Nightshade Books, and a signed limited edition is out there somewhere too. Asimov's SF published her story "What Wolves Know" in September, 2007 and "Song of the Black Dog" appeared in the late SciFiction in 2006 (sciFiction at scifi.com). Other recent stories include "Freezing Geezers" in the special anniversary issue of the review, Gargoyle, out some time this summer, and 'Biodad," in Asimov's SF in October, 2007. She has another novel in the works. Details? Too soon to tell.

Reed's other novels include Captain Grownup (Random House, 1978), Fort Privilege (Doubleday, 1985), Catholic Girls (Donald I. Fine, 1987), Little Sisters of the Apocalypse (Fiction Collective Two/Black Ice Books, 1994), and J. Eden (University Press of New England, 1996). As Kit Craig she is the author of Twice Burned (Headline, 1993), Gone (Berkley Books, 1994), and other psychological thrillers published here and in the UK. A Guggenheim fellow, she is the first American recipient of an international literary grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation. Her hundred-plus short stories have appeared in, among others, The Yale Review, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Omni, Asimov's SF and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature. Her books Weird Women, Wired Women, and Little Sisters of the Apocalypse were finalists for the Tiptree Prize. Of the short fiction, The New York Times Book Review says, "Most of these stories shine with the incisive edginess of brilliant cartoons . . . they are less fantastic than visionary.'

Her reviews of mainstream fiction have appeared in Washington Post Book World, The New York Times Book Review, The Hartford Courant and The St. Petersburg Times. Recently named Wesleyan University's Resident Writer, she also serves on the board of the Authors League Fund. The current Scotties are Tig and Bridey, a.k.a. MacBride of Frankenstein.