K.C. Ball

K.C. Ball (1949-2018) lived in Seattle, Washington, a stone’s throw from the waters of Puget Sound. She became an addict of the written word as a child in Ohio and began writing fiction full-time when she retired.

Snapshots from A Black Hole & Other Oddities was her first short-story collection. Her short fiction has appeared in various online and print publications, including Analog, Lightspeed, Flash Fiction Online, and Murky Depths (the award-winning British fantasy magazine). Her novel Lifting Up Veronica was serialized online by Every Day Publishing (www.everydaynovels.com) beginning January, 2012, and was published in novel form that year.

K.C. won the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future award in 2009 and her award-winning story, “Coward’s Steel,” appeared in the Writers of the Future 26 anthology. She is a 2010 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and an active member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.

She published and edited 10Flash Quarterly (http://10flash.wordpress.com/), an online magazine devoted to genre flash fiction. She wit, wisdom, insight, and humor are deeply missed.