Eleanor Arnason

Eleanor Arnason published her first story in 1973. Since then she has published six novels and 30+ works of short fiction. Her fourth novel, A Woman of the Iron People, won the James Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society Awards in 1992. Her fifth novel, Ring of Swords, won a Minnesota Book Award in 1994. In recent decades she has concentrated on short fiction, though she is currently finishing a novel, a sequel to Ring of Swords. “The Glutton” is one of several stories about the Goxhat, aliens who live in the universe of Arnason’s Lydia Duluth stories.