Kage Baker is even older than Green Man Reviewer Kathleen Bartholomew, which makes her REALLY OLD. She ran away to sea when she was five, getting a job as a steam whistle on a tramp steamer, and learned to read and write thanks to the tutelage of a kindly one-legged sea cook. He suggested she try her hand at writing science fiction, so she produced her first novel, In the Garden of Iden, at the age of eight. Thirty-seven years later she managed to sell it to Harcourt Brace, who promptly regretted their impulse purchase but oh well. She has since produced multiple works of science fiction, fantasy and horror, the most recent of which, The Sons of Heaven, was featured in a recent issue of Green Man Review and will be released on July 14, 2007. She resides in Pismo Beach, California, with her parrot and a sibling. Her sibling, not the parrot's.