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Natania Barron is a writer with a penchant for the speculative; she is also an unrepentant geek. Her work has appeared in Weird Tales, EscapePod, The Gatehouse Gazette, Thaumatrope, Bull Spec, Crossed Genres, Steampunk Tales, Faerie Magazine, and in anthologies. She has released the most recent draft of her steampunk novel, The Aldersgate, as a podcast at The Aldersgate Cycle (you can also subscribe to the whole story in iTunes here). She is also the founder of The Outer Alliance, a group dedicated to queer advocacy in speculative fiction. Recently, she joined the Bull Spec crew as a fiction editor.

Her debut novel, Pilgrim of the Sky, is due out December 2011 from Candlemark & Gleam.

In addition, Natania also blogs for Wired Magazine’s GeekDad Blog as well as Geeks Are Sexy. Also, Natania is a senior editor at GeekMom. 

Natania holds a BA in English/Writing from Loyola University Maryland and an MA in English with a concentration in medieval literature from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In her spare time she cooks, bakes, drinks coffee, crochets, plays guitar and ukulele, and enjoys nature. She lives in North Carolina with her family.

Published Short Fiction:

• “Dr. Adderson’s Lens” – Gatehouse Gazette #8/Bull Spec #1 (reprint)
  
• “The Brass Pedestal” - Steampunk Tales #4
  
• “Dead’s End to Middleton” – Crossed Genres #16, Steampunk Issue/ EscapePod 273
  
• “A Dear, Lovely Thing” – Faerie Magazine #20
• “The Monastery of the Seven Hands” – Dark Futures
  
• “The Wakened Image” – Weird Tales #356, collaborative poetry and art with Brigid Ashwood.
• “Sand” – Bull Spec #3 (in French, Spanish, and English)
  
• “Without a Light” – Fantastique Unfettered
• “The One in the Swamp” Shotguns v. Cthulhu, Stone Skin Press (forthcoming 2011)
  
• “Fish Eyes” – Bull Spec #8
• “Pushing Paper in Hartleigh” — Subversion: Science Fiction & Fantasy Tales Challenging the Norm (2011)

Novels:

• Pilgrim of the Sky - December 2011, Candlemark & Gleam

Free Fiction

• The Aldersgate (podcast draft of novel)
  
• Castledeck and the Arabella (steampunk adventure set in the Aldersgate universe)