E. Glen Hodges

I grew up in a rural part of British Columbia, Canada. For those who don't know, there are parts of the province that are closer in climate to California than to the rest of Canada, so I grew up in a place that was hot, dusty, and sparsely populated. I think living in that sort of environment has given me insight into what some like to romantically call the "rhythm of the seasons" because unlike living in the cities, you really have to adapt to whatever the environment throws at you.

The first full story I ever read was "Colours in the Dreamweaver's Loom" by Beth Hilgartner. I just found the imagery in her books to be, well, magical. Come to think of it, I also read Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising" around the same time. The more I think about it, the more I realize that my love of reading - and of fantasy as a genre - was shaped by the writings of brilliant women telling stories in a field that often ignored them.