Stephanie Jane "Steph" Swainston is a British literary fantasy/science fiction author, receiving critical acclaim for her first novel The Year of Our War. The book won the 2005 Crawford Award and a nomination for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. The sequel No Present Like Time was published in 2005. Swainston's third book, The Modern World, is set in the same universe and was published in May 2007. Her fourth novel, Above the Snowline, was published in 2010. In 2011, she announced she was quitting full-time writing to become a chemistry teacher although she has subsequently indicated that she is working on a fifth novel. [More at Wikipedia]

January 1st, 1974 in Bradford (Age 50)