Alethea Kontis
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Alethea Kontis is an American author and editor living in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Her first published book was a children's picture book, AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First (2006), published by Candlewick Press. Her published short fiction includes "Sunday" in Realms of Fantasy, and "Small Magics" in Intergalactic Medicine Show.
With Steven Savile, she edited the 2006 science fiction and fantasy anthology Elemental, a benefit anthology for children who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that includes work by Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, David Drake, Jacqueline Carey, Martha Wells, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, Eric Nylund, Sherrilyn Kenyon (writing as Kinley MacGregor), Stel Pavlou, Michael Marshall Smith, Sean Williams, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, and others. She is an editor for Apex Digest magazine.
Kontis co-founded small press speculative fiction publisher Nyx Books with Steven Savile in 2005.
