Eileen Kernaghan

She lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.

Eileen Kernaghan grew up on a dairy farm outside Grindrod, British Columbia, Canada, population 600. The reading material she found on the family shelves - Greek myths, historical novels, G. A. Henty's boys' adventure books, a collection of Weird Tales and Thrilling Wonder Stories - helped to shape her writing career. Her first published story, written at the age of twelve, appeared in the Vancouver Sun newspaper. It earned her a byline, an illustration, and a check for $12.65. Her next appearance in print, twenty years later, was with a cover story in the New York science fiction magazine Galaxy. She went on to write the "Grey Isles" series, a Bronze Age trilogy based on the origins of Stonehenge. Journey to Aprilioth, Songs from the Drowned Lands and The Sarsen Witch were published by Ace Books during the 1980s. Kernaghan was nominated eleven times for Canadian science fiction and fantasy awards, nine Auroras and two Sunburst Awards, winning Aurora Awards for the following titles: 1985: Songs from the Drowned Lands (Ace Books) — novel 1990: “Carpe Diem” (On Spec Fall 1989) — short-form, English 2001: The Snow Queen (Thistledown Press) — long-form work in English 2014: “Night Journey: West Coast ” (Tesseracts Seventeen) — poem/song in English Her day jobs have included elementary school teaching, arts administration, operating a used bookstore with her husband Pat, and, for many years, teaching creative writing at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby, and Port Moody's Kyle Centre. She has three adult children and four grandchildren. • Illustration — Cover of book, Tales from the Holograph Woods - Speculative Poetry by Eileen Kernaghan