Barbara Davies was born in Birmingham, England, twenty minutes after her twin sister. She grew up in the Midlands, managed to scrape a BA from York University, worked in computing in Surrey, then moved to Gloucestershire where she's now a writer and a book reviewer for Starburst . Barbara published her first short story in 1994. Since then, more than forty of her stories have appeared in various genre magazines, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine , Khimairal Ink , Neo-Opsis , and nanobison , and in the anthologies Ideomancer Unbound , Crossings , and F/SF Volume 1 . The readers of Kimota gave one of her stories their 1999 Best Story Award.