birth_place article_title name birth_date
san francisco , us michaela roessner
 michaela-marie roessner-hermann 27 january 1950
michaela roessner

michaela-marie roessner-hermann -lrb- born january 27 , 1950 -rrb- is an american science-fiction writer publishing under the name michaela roessner .
born in san francisco , she was raised in california , new york , pennsylvania , thailand , and oregon .
trained as a visual artist , she holds a bfa in ceramics from the california college of arts and crafts and an mfa in painting from lone mountain college , and exhibits under the name m. m. roessner-herman .
in 1989 , she won the john w. campbell award for best new writer .
her first novel , `` walkabout woman '' , was a 1989 nominee for the mythopoeic award , and won the crawford award .
she has also published the science fiction novel `` vanishing point '' and number of short stories , published in `` asimov 's science fiction magazine '' , scifiction , `` omni online '' , '' strange plasma '' , `` fantasy & science fiction '' , and elsewhere .
she is also the author of two historical novels , `` the stars dispose '' -lrb- 1997 -rrb- and `` the stars compel '' -lrb- 1999 -rrb- , about catherine de medici .
she lives in southern california .
she has taught at the clarion workshop at michigan state university and the gotham writers ' workshop .
