Jo Graham is the author of more than thirty books and three online games. Best known for her historical fantasy novels Black Ships and Stealing Fire, and her tie-in novels for MGM's popular Stargate:Atlantis and Stargate:SG-1 series, she has been a Locus Award finalist, an Amazon Top Choice, a Spectrum Award finalist, a Manly Wade Wellman Award finalist, a Romantic Times Top Pick in historical fiction, an Editor's Choice from the Historical Novel Society, and a Lambda Literary Award and Rainbow Award finalist in bisexual fiction. She is the author of The Memoirs of the Borgia Sibyl, the Calpurnian Wars science fiction series, and with Melissa Scott, the Order of the Air historical fantasy series. She lives in North Carolina with her partner and is the mother of four daughters.