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Michaela Marie Roessner is an American science-fiction writer publishing under the name Michaela Roessner. Born in San Francisco on 27 January 1950, she was raised in (successively) California, New York, Pennsylvania, Thailand, and Oregon. Trained as a visual artist, she holds a BFA in Ceramics from the California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA in Painting from Lone Mountain College, and exhibits under the name M. M. Roessner-Herman. Biography: Michaela Roessner

Her science fiction includes the novel Walkabout Woman, a 1989 nominee for the Mythopoeic Award, Nominees for Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards and Vanishing Point, and number of short stories, published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, SciFiction, Omni Online, Strange Plasma, and elsewhere. She is also the author of two historical novels, The Stars Dispose (1997) and The Stars Compel (1999), about Catherine de Medici. She lives in southern California.

She has taught at the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University and the Gotham Writers' Workshop. Michaela Roessner Faculty Biographies at Gotham Writers' Workshop and WritingClasses.com

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