Jody Houser decided she wanted to be a writer when she was eight
years old and never looked back. For better or worse, no one ever
suggested that she stop. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at
Emerson College in Boston, where she completed her master's thesis
in screenwriting and was a winner of the Rod Parker Fellowship for
Playwriting.
Starting in 2006, Jody began experimenting with webcomics. She is
the creator behind the webcomic Cupcake POW!, which launched in
2010 and is currently available on comiXology Submit.
Jody has written Faith for Valiant Comics, Max Ride- Ultimate
Flight and Agent May for Marvel, and Orphan Black for IDW. She has
been a contributing writer to numerous comic anthologies including
Avengers- No More Bullying, Vertigo CMYK- Magenta, and both
Womanthology series.
Robin Hobb is a New York Times best-selling fantasy author. She is
published in English in the US, UK and Australia, and her works
have been widely translated. Her short stories have been finalists
for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, as well as winning the
Asimov's Readers Award. Her best known series is The Farseer
Trilogy (Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, and Assassin's
Quest.)
Robin Hobb was born in Oakland California, but grew up in
Fairbanks, Alaska. She has spent her life mostly in the Pacific
Nortwest region of the US, and currently resides in Tacoma,
Washington State, with her husband Fred. They have four grown
offspring, and six grandchildren.
Robin Hobb is a pen name for Margaret Ogden. She has also written
under the name Megan Lindholm.
She published her first short story for children when she was 18,
and for some years wrote as a journalist and children's writer. Her
stories for children were published in magazines such as Humpty
Dumpty's Magazine for Little Children, Jack & Jill and Highlights
for Children. She also created educational reading material for
children for a programmed reading series by SRA (Science Research
Associates.) She received a grant award from the Alaska State
Council on the arts for her short story "The Poaching", published
in Finding Our Boundaries in 1980.
Fantasy and Science Fiction had always been her two favorite
genres, and in the late 70's she began to write in them. Her
initial works were published in small press 'fanzines' such as
Space and Time (editor Gordon Linzner). Her first professionally
published story was "Bones for Dulath" that appeared in the Ace
anthology AMAZONS!, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson in 1979. A
short time later, a second Ki and Vandien story entitled The Small
One was published in FANTASTIC in 1980.
During that time period, she and her family had moved from Alaska
to Hawaii, and subsequently to Washington State, where they
settled. She had various money making occupations (waitress,
salesperson, etc.) while striving with her writing. Her husband
Fred continued to fish Alaskan waters and was home only about 3
months out of every year. The family lived on a small farm in rural
Roy where they raised lots of vegetables, chickens, ducks, geese
and other small livestock.
In 1983, her first novel, Harpy's Flight, was published by Ace
under the pen name Megan Lindholm. Her later titles under that name
included Wizard of the Pigeons, Alien Earth, Luck of the Wheels,
and Cloven Hooves.
In 1995, she launched her best selling series of books set in the
Realm of the Elderlings. At that time, she began writing as Robin
Hobb. Her first trilogy of books were about her popular characters,
FitzChivalry Farseer and the Fool. The Farseer Trilogy is comprised
of Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin and Assassin's Quest.
These books were followed by The Liveship Traders trilogy, set in
the same world. The Tawny Man trilogy returned to the tale of Fitz
and the Fool. Most recently, the four volumes of the Rain Wilds
Chronicles were published- Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of
Dragons and Blood of Dragons.
In 2013, it was announced that she would return to her best-loved
characters with a new trilogy, The Fitz and the Fool trilogy. The
first volume, Fool's Assassin, will be published in August of
2014.
Other works as Robin Hobb include The Soldier Son trilogy and short
stories published in various anthologies. A collection of her
shorter works as both Lindholm and Hobb is available in The
Inheritance.
She continues to reside in Tacoma, Washington, with frequent visits
to the pocket farm in Roy.
“Fantasy as it ought to be written.”—George R.R. Martin
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