Alethea Kontis

Alethea Kontis
Born	Alethea Kontis January 11, 1976 (1976-01-11) South Burlington, Vermont
Occupation	writer
Nationality	American
Genres	Horror fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy
www.aletheakontis.com

Alethea Kontis (born January 11, 1976) is an American author and editor living in Ashburn, Virginia. Her children's picture book, AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First was published by Candlewick Press in 2006, followed by H Is for Halloween in 2010. She shares credit for The Dark-Hunter Companion with Sherrilyn Kenyon, whose Dark-Hunter series the Companion documents. Kontis's published short fiction includes "Sunday" in Realms of Fantasy and "Small Magics" in Intergalactic Medicine Show, among other stories. Kontis's debut novel, Enchanted, will be released by Harcourt Books in May 2012.

She co-edited the 2006 science fiction and fantasy anthology Elemental, a benefit anthology for children who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that includes work by Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, David Drake, Jacqueline Carey, Martha Wells, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, Eric Nylund, Sherrilyn Kenyon (writing as Kinley MacGregor), Stel Pavlou, Michael Marshall Smith, Sean Williams, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, and others. She is a book reviewer for InterGalactic Medicine Show.

Select bibliography

Novels

• Enchanted Harcourt Books ISBN 978-0547645704

Collections

• Beauty & Dynamite (essays and poems) Apex Publications ISBN 0-9776681-7-7

Non-fiction

• The Dark-Hunter Companion (Dark-Hunter series) co-written with Sherrilyn Kenyon

Children's books

• AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First (Illustrated by Bob Kolar) (Candlewick Press, 2006)
• Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome (Illustrated by Janet K. Lee) (Thaumatrope, 2009)
• AlphaOops: H is for Halloween (Illustrated by Bob Kolar) (Candlewick Press, 2010)
• The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice's Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There (Illustrated by Janet K. Lee) (Archaia, 2012)

Short stories

• "Sunday" (Realms of Fantasy, October 2006)
• "Small Magics" (Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, October 2006)
• "Blood & Water" (Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, July 2008)
• "Black Hole Sun" (w/Kelli Dunlap)
• "Life's a Beach" (w/Ariell Branson)
• "Blue & Gray and Black & Green"
• "Ghost Dancer"
• "The Giant & The Unicorn"
• "Sweetheart Come"
• "The God of Last Moments"
• "Foiled"
• "Happy Thoughts" (Apex Digest issue #3)
• "Poor Man's Roses"
• "The Monster & Mrs. Blake" (for The Story Station)
• "Diary of a Ghost's Mistress" (Shroud magazine)
• "Hero Worship"
• "Pocket Full of Posey"
• "Red Lantern"
• "Savage Planet"
• "Unicorn Gold"
• "The Unicorn Hunter"
• "The Unicorn Tree"
• "The Way of the Restless"
• "The Witch of Black Mountain"

Anthologies edited

• Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2006) (co-edited with Steven Savile) (Tor books) ISBN 0-7653-1563-7

External links

• Alethea Kontis's official Web site
• AlphaOops official Web site
• "Small Magics" at Intergalactic Medicine Show
• "Blood & Water" at Intergalactic Medicine Show
• "White Girl" (non-fiction), Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2008
• Alethea Kontis at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database