Lynn Flewelling

Lynn Flewelling (born Lynn Elizabeth Beaulieu on October 20, 1958) is an American fantasy fiction author.

Biography

Born at Presque Isle, Flewelling grew up in northern Maine, United States.Template:Citation needed She has worked as a teacher, a house painter, a necropsy technicianTemplate:Citation needed, and a freelance editor and journalist. She has been married to Douglas Flewelling since 1981,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and has two sons. She currently lives in Redlands, California, where she continues to write, and offers lectures and creative writing workshops at the University of Redlands.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Flewelling is a convert to Thiền Buddhism Template:Citation needed, having taken her vows with Engaged Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, and is a practitioner of Buddhist meditation.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Flewelling's writings promote feminism and LGBT causes, having said in relation to these topics, "I’ve always believed that people are people, and it’s wrong to discriminate against them just because of what gender or group they fall into."<ref name="michelefogal.com">Template:Cite web</ref>

Her first Nightrunner novel, Luck in the Shadows, was a Locus Editor's Pick for Best First Novel and a finalist for the Compton Crook Award. Her novels Traitor's Moon (2000) and Hidden Warrior (2004) were both finalists for the Spectrum Award. Her novels are currently published in 13 countries, and in 2005, the first volume of the Japanese-language version of Luck in the ShadowsTemplate:Citation needed was published. Flewelling is accessible to readers through her website, her LiveJournal blog, her Yahoo! group, and numerous guest appearances at conventions including Comic-Con and Smith College's ConBust.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Her work has been praised by other fantasy authors, including George R. R. Martin,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Orson Scott Card,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Elizabeth Hand,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Robin Hobb, and Katherine Kurtz.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Independent film company Csquared Pictures has acquired film rights to the first three books in the Nightrunner series,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> but they have not yet started production.

Flewelling's work has frequently promoted LGBT themes as well as topics related to gender.<ref name="michelefogal.com"/> The protagonists of the Nightrunner books are both bisexual, and Flewelling has stated their creation was in response to the near-absence of LGBT characters in the genre and marginalization of existing ones.<ref name="auto"/> The Tamir Triad, combining elements of psychological drama with ghost story horror, features a protagonist who transforms from one sex and gender to the other.<ref>Petty, Anne (2007). "Mythprint", Vol. 44, No. 4. Accessed at "www.sff.net/people/Lynn.Flewelling/s.triad.review.html" Template:Webarchive</ref> Flewelling's works have drawn academic attention in relation to these themes.<ref>Battis, Jes (projected 2010). "Queer Break-Ins: Erotic Service in the Novels of Chaz Brenchley and Lynn Flewelling" "Are You Being Served", Ed. Jennifer Lokash, Columbia University Press. Accessed at "www.sff.net/people/lynn.flewelling/s.jes.battis.html" Template:Webarchive</ref>

"Letter To Alexi", Prisoners of the Night #9, 1995
"Raven's Cut", Assassin Fantastic anthology, Martin Greenberg and Alex Potter, ed. DAW Books, 2001
"The Complete Nobody's Guide to Query Letters", Speculations, 1999; reprinted on SFWA website and in The Writer's Guide to Queries, Pitches and Proposals by Moira Allen, Allsworth Press, 2001
"Perfection", Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Steven Savile and Alethea Kontis, ed., Tor Books, 2006
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