Tim Powers

Powers has lived in southern California since 1959. He graduated from California State University at Fullerton with a B.A. in English in 1976; the same year he published his first two novels, "The Skies Discrowned" and "Epitaph in Rust." Powers, who takes more time and care writing novels than his fans would like, went on to sell "The Drawing of the Dark" (1979, a supernatural fantasy about King Arthur and beer-drinking), "The Anubis Gates" (1983, time-travel fantasy featuring Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron, and winner of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and the Prix Apollo), "Dinner at Deviant's Palace" (1987, a science fiction post-apocalypse novel and winner of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award), "The Stress of Her Regard" (1989, a vampire novel featuring English Romantic poets John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron), the Fisher-King, Tarot-card-haunted trilogy of "Last Call" (1992, winner of the World Fantasy Award), "Expiration Date" (1996), and "Earthquake Weather" (1997), and "Declare" (2001, a supernatural spy novel featuring Kim Philby). A very accessible writer, he has often taught the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop at Michigan State University and the Writers of the Future Workshop, and chats regularly with his fans on the Tim Powers discussion list on yahoogroups.