Meet Your WDS Instructor:

Ardath Mayhar

Ardath Mayhar has written amlost all her life, first poetry, then science fiction novels, and most lately books of fiction that recreate the worlds of different prehistoric Indian cultures. She tells those of her students who hesitate because they are "too old to begin writing" that she began writing novels when whe was forty-three. Since that time, she has completed fifty-four book-length manuscripts and has several more partially completed ones. She has written hudereds of short stories, dozens of which have been published, and she has continued to write and sell poetry.

She has also changed genders, becoming Frank Cannon for three western novels published by Zebra Books and John Kildeer for a sequence of Mountain Man novels published by Bantam Domain. Four of those are in print. A fifth, Passage West, is due in early 1994, and three more are contracted. Prehistoric Indian novels People of the Mesa, Island in the lake and Towers of the Earth, under her own name, have been published by Berley's Diamond Line. A forth, dealing with Folsom era hunters is in progress.

Short stories have appeared in Amazing Stories , Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, The Twilight Zone, The Horror Show, Weird Tales, and other magazines. Anthologies including her work include Dark at Heart, (edited by Joe Lansdale), CatFantastic I-III (edited by Andre Norton), Mummy (edited by Bill Pronzini), and many more.

A limited edition of her favorite short stories from small press magazines is due from Dark Regions, a small press, in late 1993. Selected Stories of Ardath Mayhar: Mean Little Old Lady at Work is the projected title, and the introduction was written by her long-time friend, Joe R. Lansdale.

Ardath Mayhar

P.O. Box 180
Chireno, TX 75937