Lavie Tidhar is the winner of the 2002 James Ragan Poetry Prize and the 2003 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition. He grew up in Israel and South Africa and travelled widely in Africa, Asia and Europe. His short stories are due to appear in several anthologies – including The Blackest Death Volume One, DeathGrip: Legacy of Horror and Dark Streets After Hours - and magazines in America and the UK, as well as in translation in France, Spain, Israel and China. He writes a regular review column for DuskSite.com and his non-fiction has appeared in The Fix, Nova Express and Foundation. He currently lives in London.

Lavie’s web site is at ~http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lavie

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