Theodore Judson is an American science fiction writer and highschool teacher. He began writing after his wife died and is the author of Tom Wedderburn's Life (2002), Fitzpatrick's War (2004), The Martian General's Daughter (2008), The Sultan's Emissary (2008) (a short story published in the anthology Sideways in Crime) and Hell Can Wait ( to be published in November 2010). He grew up in a farming community in western Wyoming and graduated from the University of Wyoming.