Misha

"Misha is a writer of mixed North American Indian heritage. Her books include Prayers of Steel (prose pieces) and Red Spider White Web (a novel); her prose piece 'Tsuki Mangestu' was used in a dynamic performance by two Australian composers and won the 1989 Prix d'Italia." [publisher's bumpf in Storming the Reality Studio edited by Larry McCaffery, 1991]

"Her prose has appeared in Germany, Austria, Australia, Japan, America and Canada among others... As well as holding degrees in French and English literature she is an accomplished musician, often working in conjunction with her husband, composer Michael Chocholak." [publisher's bumpf in Red Spider White Web , 1990]

"Her novel Red Spider White Web was a finalist for the Arthur C.Clarke Award in England and winner of the 1991 Readercon Award for Best Novel.

"She was the first fiction editor for the influential fringe/alternative sf magazine New Pathways in Science Fiction and Fantasy , edited by Michael Adkisson. Her review column "Points of Impact" carried through three magazines, New Pathways, Ice River edited by David Memmott, and http://www.empathy.com/eyeball/Science Fiction Eye edited by Steve Brown.

"She is living in Cove, Oregon, on a 40-acre farm raising and training Norwegian Fjord draft horses." --David Memmott (bookmaster at Wordcraft of Oregon, in a personal e-mail May 1996).

"She and her husband make music, practice the arts, ride the horses." --Brian Aldiss (in the Foreword to Red Spider White Web , Oxford 1989).

Married to: Michael Chocholak.