Skyler White | |
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White dancing at Minicon 50, April 2015
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Born | 1967 (age 49–50) Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA |
Occupation | Novelist |
Alma mater | Franklin and Marshall University of Texas at Austin |
Genre | Fantasy and science fiction, romance, erotica |
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Skyler White is a writer of fantasy and science fiction, including the novel The Incrementalists co-authored with Steven Brust. She is also the author of two novels in the genres of romance and erotica.
White grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The child of two college professors, she attended a performing arts high school, originally intending to pursue a career in ballet. She graduated from Franklin and Marshall College, where she studied English and drama. She has earned a master's degree in theatre.
Among the writers who were her favorites or her greatest influences, White listed Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, Rosemary Sutcliff, George Orwell, Anne Rice, Tom Robbins, Neil Gaiman, Emma Bull, Margaret Atwood and Steven Brust.
White's first two novels were both published in 2010 by Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Group specializing in publishing erotica romance novels. Her debut novel, and Falling, Fly, was described as a "dark fable of desire between a fallen angel and a self-medicating neuroscientist in a steampunk hell."Library Journal named it one of the Best Sci-Fi Fantasy Books of 2010, and called it one of that year's "most unusual blends of supernatural fiction and urban fantasy." According to Publishers Weekly, the novel was "a trippy urban fantasy, an esoteric battle between myth and science told in floods of evocative prose."