Liz Williams

Liz Williams’ first two novels, The Ghost Sister (2001) and Empire of Bones (2002) were both nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. She is also the author of the Inspector Chen series. She has had short stories published in Asimov’s, Interzone, The Third Alternative and Visionary Tongue. From the mid-nineties until 2000, she lived and worked in Kazakhstan. Her experiences there are reflected in her 2003 novel Nine Layers of Sky. This novel brings into the modern era the Bogatyr Ilya Muromets, and Manas, the hero of the Epic of Manas. Her novels have been published in the US and the UK, while her fourth novel The Poison Master (2003) has been translated into Dutch.