A former child actress, Chemistry major, and Orson Scott Card Boot Camper, Alethea Kontis's first foray into the literary world was a mixed-up picture book-AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First. (The sequel, AlphaOops: H is for Halloween, will be published in 2009.) In 2005, she co-edited the critically acclaimed SF all-star Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology for Tor Books, and launched her exclusive dark fantasy and horror small press, Nyx Books. She also penned the Sherrilyn Kenyon Dark-Hunter Companion (St. Martin's Press, Nov. 2007).

Her short stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy and The Harrow 2006 Anthology. You can always find her Victorian fantasy "Small Magics" online in Issue #3 of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. A collection of her essays, Beauty and Dynamite, will be released this fall from Apex Publications.