Michaela Roessner

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Michaela-Marie Roessner-Hermann, who publishes as Michaela Roessner, was born in San Francisco on 27 January 1950. She grew up in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Thailand and Oregon. She holds a BFA in ceramics from the California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA in painting from Lone Mountain College, and she exhibits her visual art as M. M. Roessner-Herman. She lives in southern California and has taught at the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University and at the Gotham Writers' Workshop. Her first novel, Walkabout Woman (1988), was followed by the science fiction novel Vanishing Point (1993) and two historical novels about Catherine de Medici, The Stars Dispose (1997) and The Stars Compel (1999). She received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1989.

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• Walkabout Woman (1988) · Walkabout Woman Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 nomination)

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