Vonda McIntyre

Vonda Neel McIntyre is an American science fiction author. Vonda N. McIntyre, daughter of H. Neel and Vonda B. Keith McIntyre, earned a degree in biology from the University of Washington in 1970. That same year, she attended the Clarion Writers Workshop, founded at the Clarion University of Pennsylvania in 1968. McIntyre went on to do graduate work in genetics. In 1971, McIntyre founded the Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle, WA with the support of Clarion founder Robin Scott Wilson. She contributed to the workshop until 1973. By 1973, McIntyre had won her first Nebula Award, for the... novelette "Of Mist, and Grass and Sand"; this later became part of the novel Dreamsnake , which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The novelette and novel both concern a female healer in a desolate, primitivized venue. McIntyre's debut novel, The Exile Waiting, was published in 1975. She has also written a number of Star Trek and Star Wars novels, including Enterprise: The First Adventure and The Entropy Effect.
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