PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Eileen Gunn is a science fiction author and editor based in Seattle, Washington, who began publishing in 1978. Her story Coming to Terms, inspired, in part, by a friendship with Avram Davidson, won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 2004. Several others have been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Locus awards. Gunn has a background in high-tech advertising and marketing; she wrote advertising for Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1970s, and was Director of Advertising at Microsoft in the 1980s. A seasoned SF pro, she is on the board of directors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.
"""Without Eileen Gunn, life as we know it would be so dull, we wouldn't recognize it. Among the five or six North Americans currently able to write short stories, she has not written anywhere near enough."" --Ursula K. Le Guin ""If 'umami' described how stories feel in your mind instead of how food tastes, I would say everything Eileen does is infused with umami."" --Nisi Shawl ""Plenty of science fiction and fantasy authors do 'thought experiments' but few of them disregard experimental safety protocols with quite as much gleeful abandon as Eileen Gunn."" --Charlie Jane Anders"
