Rigel Ailur

Rigel Ailur composed her first novel — seven handwritten pages!  Complete with cover and
table of contents! — at age seven and hasn’t stopped since.  Bilingual thanks to living in Germany, Rigel also worked as a translator and interpreter.  Short story credits include “Brigadoon” in the Star Trek anthology Strange New Worlds 10.  Writing as Kris Katzen, her
story “Kaboom, Ka-bye” led off the Shadowrun sourcebook Seattle 2072.

The author of twenty-six novels and more than ninety short stories, Rigel writes in almost every
genre, but mostly science fiction and fantasy. Her novels include the Vagabonds’ Adventures
action thrillers, the Sorcery & Steel series (with Laura Ware), the science fiction series Tales of Mimion, and the galaxies-spanning Exploration. Her short stories appear in the long-running
Brave New Girls anthology series and several other anthologies including the IAMTW’s Turning
the Tied and Double Trouble. She writes for adults, teens and middle grade. In nonfiction, she
contributes television reviews to the Outside In series and to the SciFi Bulletin online. Most
importantly, Rigel dotes on her astronomically adorable feline kids.