What's in a Name?
Our name is a combination of wyrd, an ancient Anglo-Saxon word for destiny, and wordsmiths. So you might say that as writers we are crafting our destinies with our words. Lofty, no? "Wyrdsmiths" also nicely shortens to "wyrdos," so we’re not likely to get big heads.
Eleanor Arnason
Eleanor is the Tiptree Award–winning author of five novels and more than thirty short stories. Her novel Ring of Swords won a Minnesota Book Award and was acclaimed by the New York Review of Science Fiction as one of the best science fiction novels of the 1990s.
Books
Bill Henry
Bill is editor of the Wyrdsmiths' two short story collections, Tales from the Black Dog (2005) and New Wyrd (2006). He currently lives and works in Boston.
Naomi Kritzer
Naomi is the author of two fantasy series, the Dead Rivers Trilogy and Eliana's Song. Publishers' Weekly called her debut novel, Fires of the Faithful, "chocolate cake: instant addiction."
Lyda Morehouse
Lyda writes about what gets most people in trouble: religion and politics. Her latest science fiction novel is Resurrection Code (Mad Norwegian Press, 2011), a sequel / prequel to her award-winning AngeLINK series.
