Juliet E McKenna was born in Lincolnshire in the latter half of the twentieth century, but now lives in West Oxfordshire with her husband and two sons.

An interest in Greek myth and folk tales in her childhood led to a classics degree in Oxford, where she became involved with Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group and both table-top and live-action role-playing, for which she found herself increasingly writing scenarios. All of this in turn (along with taking up Aikido somewhere along the way) more or less led to her trying her hand at writing fantasy fiction.

A stint working at her local bookshop helped her to see the business from the inside, as did the Crime and Mystery Weekends run at Oxford every summer, which allowed her to meet a number of writers, as well as agents and publishers, all of which came in useful when the time came to submit her first novel, The Thief's Gamble, which became the first volume of the Tales of the Einarinn. Since then, Juliet has had five volumes of the Tales of the Einarinn published, and has plans for a new series, provisionally titled The Aldabreshin Compass.

Besides all this, Juliet is a friendly, intelligent and witty guest, and we are delighted to welcome her to our convention.