Ellen Kushner’s cult classic "Fantasy of Manners," Swordspoint, introduced readers to the city to which she has returned in two more novels and a growing handful of short stories. She recently recorded all three novels as audiobooks for Neil Gaiman Presents. She has taught writing at Clarion, Odyssey, and Hollins University, and is a co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, supporting work that falls between genre categories. She lives in New York City with Delia Sherman, about twenty blocks from Samuel R. Delany, and once had the honor of riding a train through Spain with him.