Eileen Gunn is a short-story writer. She is currently working on a novel about race and gender, set in 19th-century America. Her fiction has received the Nebula Award in the US the and Sense of Gender Award in Japan, and been nominated for the Hugo, Philip K. Dick, and World Fantasy awards and short-listed for the James Tiptree, Jr. award. She was editor and publisher of the Infinite Matrix website, and spent 22 years on the board of directors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Locus Foundation.