Sheila Finch is the author of eight science fiction novels. Numerous of her short stories have appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Amazing, Asimov's, Fantasy Book, and in many anthologies. A collection of the "lingster" stories about the young men and women trained as translators and interpreters to aliens appeared as The Guild of Xenolinguists; one of them, "Reading The Bones," won a Nebula Award. She has also published non-fiction about writing and science fiction.