Stephanie A. Smith is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. She took her Ph.D. from Berkeley (1990), and writes both criticism and fiction. Prior to her degree, she was as an editorial assistant at David Godine in Boston, then went to study with Ursula K. Le Guin in Portland, Oregon where she also worked as an editor and wrote her first two young adult fantasy novels, Snow-Eyes (Athenaeum/DAW 1985) and The-Boy-Who-Was-Thrown-Away (Athenaeum/DAW, 1987). She is also the author of an adult SF novel, Other Nature (TOR 1995) and of a critical book, Conceived By Liberty (Cornell 1995). She has won fiction residencies at Hedgebrook, Norcroft and the Provincetown Fine Arts Center for her new novel-in-progress, Baby Rocket.
She is now co-editor with N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA) of the Science and Literature series at the University of Michigan Press. Professor Smith's academic and fictional work is situated at the intersection of science, literature, politics, race and gender; her essays have appeared in journals such as differences, Criticism, Genders, and American Literature. A 1998 NEH Scholar at UCLA, her most recent publications have been excerpts from her new scholarly book on language and democracy, which appear in Body Politics and the Fictional Double (Indiana 2000), The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing (2001) and in a German volume on Literature and Science, Genealogie und Genetik (Akademie Verlag, 2002).