Michaela Roessner

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Michaela Roessner (born Michaela-Marie Roessner-Hermann on January 27, 1950, in San Francisco) is an American science-fiction writer who publishes as Michaela Roessner. She grew up in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Thailand, and Oregon. She trained as a visual artist, earning a BFA in Ceramics from the California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA in Painting from Lone Mountain College. She sometimes publishes as M. M. Roessner-Herman.

In 1989 she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her first novel Walkabout Woman was a Crawford Award winner and a Mythopoeic Award nominee. She wrote the science-fiction novel Vanishing Point and many short stories in magazines such as Asimov's, SciFiction, Omni Online, Strange Plasma, and Fantasy & Science Fiction. She also wrote two historical novels about Catherine de Medici: The Stars Dispose (1997) and The Stars Compel (1999). She lives in southern California and has taught at the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University and the Gotham Writers' Workshop.