Claire O’Dell is the author of dozens of short stories and a number of SF/F novels, including the SF mystery series, The Janet Watson Chronicles, and the epic fantasy series Mage and Empire. Her novel A Study in Honor won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery.  Writing as Beth Bernobich, she’s published dozens of short stories and a number of SF/F novels, including the epic fantasy series River of Souls and the alternate history novel The Time Roads.

Claire has an undergraduate degree in German, including a year abroad at Heidelberg Universität. In addition to her fiction, she has a thirty-plus year career in software development, with projects ranging from applied cryptography to custom web applications. She currently lives in Connecticut with her family and two idiosyncratic cats.