Lee Martindale looks like your average middle-aged Rubenesque paraplegic housewife, but don’t be fooled; they don’t call her “Hell on Wheels” for nothing. She’s brought grown men to tears (To Stand as Witness from Yard Dog Press), incited belly laughs (”Combat Shopping” in Esther Friesner’s Turn the Other Chick, written high-brow (stories in three Sword and Sorceress anthologies, and low (in three volumes of Selina Rosen’s Bubbas of the Apocalypse anthology series). She’s edited a groundbreaking anthology (Such a Pretty Face), released a CD of original filk music (The Ladies of Trade Town), and an audiochapbook CD (To Stand as Witness: Three Arthurian Tales from HarpHaven Publishing.)
When not slinging fiction, Lee is a Named Bard, Lifetime Active Member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a fencing member of the SFWA Musketeers, and a member of the SCA. She and her husband George live in Plano, TX, where she shares news with friends and fans at her website, HarpHaven.net.