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Jean Marie Stine, born in 1945, in Sikeston, Missouri) is an American editor, writer, anthologist, and publisher. Stine was born Henry Eugene Stine, becoming Jean Marie as the result of a sex change. She is the parent of three children, costumer Eden Ariel Rain, Mark Damien Stine, and with American journalist and author, Janrae Frank, of Sovay Jennifer Fox.

Stine worked as a book acquisitions and development editor for Newcastle Publishing and Leisure Books. For a number of years, she was a senior editor specializing in self-help titles for publisher, Jeremy P. Tarcher. Stine's own non-fiction books include Double Your Brain Power (Prentice-Hall 1997), a selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club, which was translated onto five languages. Other non-fiction titles under Jean Marie Stine are Empowering Your Life with Runes, and Writing Successful Self-Help/How-To Books.

Stine has served as publisher for O'Hara Publications, The Donning Co. Inc., and The International Foundation for Gender Education. She is currently editor and associate publisher of Renaissance E Books. Inc., one of the most successful and longest-established publishers of ebooks in the U.S., with nearly 1500 titles available for download. Renaissance issues classic and contemporary popular fiction in ebook format..

Stine published a number of science fiction novels and stories in the late 1960 and early 1970s, beginning with Season of the Witch in 1968, which was later filmed as Synapse. Later, Stine took over the position of editor of Galaxy after the departure of John J. Pierce in 1979, and edited two issues of the magazine. Stine was Editor-in-Chief of the science fiction and fantasy Starblaze line for The Donning Co./Publishers from 1979 to 1983, publishing many now classic and controversial titles such as Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ruins of Isis.

As an author she has written fiction and non-fiction on a variety of subjects for more than one hundred publications including Premier, The Los Angeles News, Amazing Stories, Eros, Connundrum, and Brain Candy. Among her best known stories are "In the Kingdom of the Sons" and "No Exit" (with Larry Niven). Known pseudonyms include Sibly Whyte, Hank Stine, and Allen Jorgenson.

Recently Stine has returned to writing short stories. Two recent ebook collections of Stine's work are Herstory & Other Science Fictions and Trans-Sexual: Tales for Gender Queers.

Issues concerning gender, such as change, role reversal and misalignment thereof, are recurrent themes in Stine's work. Her novel "Season of the Witch" describes the ordeal of a man, a hardened seducer who lives off women, whose consciousness is transferred into the body of a woman as a legal punishment. Her short story "Jinni's So Long at the Fair" concerns a future in which a plague has wiped out all humans but those with a genetic abnormality, with male genes (karyotype XY) but female physiology (breasts, vagina). Another short story, "Herstory", describes deliberate manipulation of the timeline to change history so that every human religion in history has stressed the supremacy of woman over man.

Anthologies she has edited include The Great Women Detectives: Seven Classic Novelettes, Hearts of the West, Reel Futures: Classic Stories that Became Great SF Movies (with Forest J Ackerman), and Those Doggone Dogs.

During the late 1960s she worked as a personal assistant to Star Trek creator,Gene Roddenberry, on special projects.

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