Natania Barron is a writer with a penchant for the speculative; she is also an unrepentant geek. Her work has appeared in Weird Tales, EscapePod, The Gatehouse Gazette, Thaumatrope, Bull Spec, Crossed Genres, Steampunk Tales, Faerie Magazine, and in a number of anthologies, including the upcoming Shotguns vs. Cthulhu.
Early on, Natania's first forays into writing were primarily Westerns and knock offs of The Outsiders. Then, after a long bout with heroic fantasy, she's somewhat returned to her roots and often writes Western steampunk or weird west, especially in short form. But she still holds a soft spot for stories with swords and magic, though she can't seem to ever write it without twisting at least ten conventions.
She is also the founder of The Outer Alliance, a group dedicated to queer advocacy in speculative fiction. Recently, she joined the Bull Spec crew as a fiction editor.
Her debut novel, Pilgrim of the Sky, is due out December 2011 from Candlemark & Gleam.