Jody Lynn Nye is an American science fiction writer. She is the author or co-author of approximately forty published novels and more than 100 short stories. She has specialized in science fiction or fantasy action novels and humor. Her humorous series range from contemporary to military science fiction. On a third of her novels she has collaborated as a co-author or as the author of a sequel. She has been an instructor of the Fantasy Writing Workshop at Columbia College Chicago and she teaches the annual Science Fiction Writing Workshop at DragonCon. Jody began collaborating with Robert Lynn Asprin on the ?MythAdventures? series in 2003 with the publication of ?Myth Told Tales? and then the novel ?Myth Alliances?. After Asprin's death in 2008 she has continued the humorous fantasy series and is now also writing sequels to his contemporary fantasy series ?Dragons?. In 2008 she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University Libraries. 

July 5th, 1957 in Chicago (Age 67)