Born in
San Francisco, she was raised in
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. In 1989, she won the
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her first novel,
Walkabout Woman, was a 1989 nominee for the
Mythopoeic Award, and won the
Crawford Award. She has also published the science fiction novel
Vanishing Point and number of short stories, published in ''
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, SciFiction, Omni Online, Strange Plasma
, Fantasy & Science Fiction
, 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. ==Awards==