M. Shayne Bell

M. SHAYNE BELL {[email protected]}received a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1991). He worked as poetry editor for Sunstone (1990–95). A poem of his, “One Hundred Years of Russian Revolution,” was a finalist for the Rhysling Award (1989). His poetry has been trans￾lated into eleven languages, and has been published in Dialogue, Sunstone, Asimov’s, Amazing Stories, and Starline. His fiction has been translated into 65 languages, and stories of his have been fi￾nalists for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. His works in￾clude the novel Nicoji, the anthology Washed by a Wave of Wind (for which he received an award for Editorial Excellence from the As￾sociation of Mormon Letters), and the story collection How We Play the Game in Salt Lake. His stories have been widely published, in Asimov’s, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog, and Tomorrow. He holds a MA in literature from Brigham Young Uni￾versity (1985). He has lectured on environmental, scientific, and literary matters at numerous national and international confer￾ences and symposiums, including lectures on the Anasazi civiliza￾tion and a tribute to Mary Leakey. He enjoys hiking, backpacking, and climbing. In 1993, he backpacked through Haleakala Volcano on Maui, from the summit to the sea, retracing an expedition Jack London made at the turn of the last century. In 1996, he was part of an eight-day expedition to the top of Kilimanjaro. He lives in Rexburg, Idaho, with six cats.