Eugie Foster sold her debut short fiction collection Returning My Sister’s Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice to Norilana Books Fantasy for hardcover publication in March 2009.
Norliana Publisher Vera Nazarian describes the book thus: “Enchantment, peril, and romance pervade the shadowy Far East, from the elegant throne room of the emperor’s palace to the humble teahouse of a peasant village. In these dozen stories of adventure and magic from the Orient, a maiden encounters an oni demon in the forest, a bride discovers her mother-in-law is a fox woman, a samurai must appease his sister’s angry ghost, strange luck is found in a jade locket, and dark and light are two sides of harmony.”
Foster won the 2002 Phobos Award, and has been nominated for the British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and Pushcart awards. In addition to her life as a writer, she is the managing editor of the short fiction and poetry review magazine, The Fix, published by TTA Press. After receiving her master’s degree in psychology, Foster retired from academia and became a corporate computer drone. When her company asked her to leave the phantoms and fairies in the South and return to the dead-cold lands of the Midwest, she said “no” and retreated to her library to pen flights of fancy. She now lives in a mildly haunted, fey-infested house in Metro Atlanta that she shares with her husband, Matthew, and her pet skunk, Hobkin.