Alethea Kontis (born January 11, 1976) is an American author and editor living in Ashburn, Virginia. Her children's picture book, AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First was published by Candlewick Press in 2006, followed by H Is for Halloween in 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 online magazine and a freelance copy editor for Solaris Books and Subterranean Press.

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

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