Big Mama Stories
Eleanor Arnason's fourth novel,A Woman of the Iron People, won the James Tiptree Jr. Award and the Mythopoeic Society Award for adult fantasy. Her fifth novel,Ring of Swords, won a Minnesota Book Award. Since 1994 she has concentrated on short fiction. Her story ''Dapple'' won a Spectrum Award for GLBT science fiction; and she has been a finalist for the Sturgeon, Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives in Minnesota.