Nationality American Genre Fantasy | Name Stephanie Shaver Role Writer | |
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Books Sword and Sorceress IX, Sword and Sorceress XI, Sword and Sorceress X Similar People Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L Paxson, Deborah J Ross, Mercedes Lackey, Vera Nazarian | ||
Stephanie Diane Shaver (born 1975) is an American fantasy writer and video game developer.
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She sold her first professional short story to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series when she was 13. Her work has also been featured in various Valdemar anthologies, edited by Mercedes Lackey.
She is an active member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and has also been a member of the Authors Guild. She gives talks about being a professional writer at fan conventions such as Dragon*Con and Archon. She worked for over a year at Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, and worked on two "Fantasy Worlds" Festivals as part of the committee and the program book editor.
In 2009 Shaver moved from St. Louis, Missouri to California. In St. Louis, she had worked as a game designer for Simutronics, serving as lead designer on Hero's Journey and contributing to DragonRealms.