Finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Nebula awards who has also won James Tiptree Jr., Mythopoeic, Lambda, and Locus awards. She authored the novels The Orphan 's Tales, Palimpsest, and Deathless. Her first novels, The Labyrinth and The Ice Puzzle, were published in 2004. That year, her poem Music of a Proto-Suicide and her short fiction work The Oracle Alone were also released.