Alethea Kontis

Alethea Kontis (born January 11, 1976) is an American author and editor living in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Her children's picture book, "AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First" was published by Candlewick Press in 2006, to be followed by "H Is for Halloween" in 2009 or 2010. She shares credit for "The Dark-Hunter Companion" with Sherrilyn Kenyon, whose Dark-Hunter series the "Companion" documents. Kontis's published short fiction includes "Sunday" in "Realms of Fantasy" and "Small Magics" in "Intergalactic Medicine Show", among other stories.

She co-edited the 2006 science fiction and fantasy anthology "Elemental", a benefit anthology for children who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that includes work by Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, David Drake, Jacqueline Carey, Martha Wells, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, Eric Nylund, Sherrilyn Kenyon (writing as Kinley MacGregor), Stel Pavlou, Michael Marshall Smith, Sean Williams, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, and others. She is a contributing editor for Apex Digest magazine and a freelance copy editor who has worked for Solaris Books.

Kontis founded small press speculative fiction publisher Nyx Books in 2005.

External links

* [http://www.aletheakontis.com Alethea Kontis's official Web site]
* [http://www.alphaoops.com/ "AlphaOops" official Web site]
* [http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=issue&vol=i3&article=_006 "Small Magics" at "Intergalactic Medicine Show"]
* [http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=issue&vol=i9&article=_006 "Blood & Water" at "Intergalactic Medicine Show"]
* [http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kontis_09_08/ "White Girl"] (non-fiction), Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2008