Nina Kiriki Hoffman won the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel for The Thread That Binds the Bones, and her second novel The Silent Strength of Stones was a finalist for both the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. Most of her work has been shorter length fiction, collected in the small press volumes A Legacy of Fire and Courting Disasters and Other Strange Affinities. She lives in Eugene, Oregon with four cats and a mannequin.
