Lisa Goldstein is the National Book Award-winning author of The Red Magician and The Uncertain Places. She has published eleven novels and two short fiction collections, including Dark Cities Underground, The Alchemist's Door, and Travellers in Magic. Her short fiction has appeared in such magazines as Interzone and Asimov's Science Fiction, and in anthologies including The Norton Book of Science Fiction and the Year's Best Fantasy series. Goldstein is also a founding member of the women's speculative fiction co-operative the Brazen Hussies. She lives in Oakland, California.