Jody Lynn Nye was born in Chicago, and except for brief forays to
summer camp and college has always lived in the area. She was graduated from Maine Township High School East and Loyola University of Chicago,
where she majored in Communications and English, and was an active member of the theater groups, the student radio stations, and the speech
team (original comedy and oratorical declamation).
Before breaking away to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk,
book-keeper at a small publishing house, freelance journalist and
photographer, accounting assistant and costume maker. For four years, she was on the technical operations staff of a local
Chicago television station, WFBN (WGBO), serving the last year as
Technical Operations Manager. During her time at WFBN, she was part of the engineering team that built the station, acted as Technical Director
during live sports broadcasts, and worked to produce in-house spots and public service announcements.
Since 1985 she has published 23 books and 60 short stories. Among the
novels Jody has written are her epic fantasy series, The Dreamland,
beginning with Waking In Dreamland, four contemporary humorous fantasies, Mythology 101, Mythology Abroad, Higher
Mythology, The Magic Touch, and two science fiction novels, Taylor’s Ark and Medicine
Show. Jody also wrote The Dragonlover’s Guide to Pern, a non-fiction-style
guide to the world of internationally best-selling author Anne McCaffrey’s popular world. She has also collaborated with Anne McCaffrey
on four science fiction novels, The Death of Sleep, Crisis On
Doona, Treaty At Doona and The Ship Who Won. She also wrote a solo sequel to
The Ship Who Won entitled The Ship Errant. Jody co-authored the
Visual Guide to Xanth with best-selling fantasy author Piers Anthony, and
edited an anthology of humorous stories about mothers in science fiction, fantasy, myth and legend, entitled Don’t Forget Your Spacesuit,
Dear!
Her newest book is a contemporary fantasy co-authored with Robert Lynn
Asprin, License Invoked. Her three Mythology books have been collected
into an omnibus, Applied Mythology, by Meisha Merlin Publishing. Her
next books is the fourth in the Mythology series, Advanced Mythology
(August 2001)..
Over the last sixteen years, Jody has taught in numerous writing
workshops and participated on hundreds of panels covering the subjects of writing and being published at science-fiction conventions. She has
also spoken in schools and libraries around the north and northwest suburbs.
Jody lives in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, with her husband Bill
Fawcett, a writer, game designer and book packager, and two cats, Lila and Cassandra.
