Eileen Gunn is a short-story writer and the editor/publisher of the cutting-edge science-fiction website The Infinite Matrix, http://www.infinitematrix.net. Her stories "Stable Strategies for Middle Management" and "Computer Friendly," included in her collection Stable Strategies and Others, were nominated for the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Association.

Her work has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, the prestigious Japanese publication Hayakawa's Sf Magazine, and The Norton Book of Science Fiction, a collection of the significant stories of the last thirty years, and has been reprinted in best-of-the-year collections in the United States and Europe.

Ms. Gunn has an extensive background in high-tech advertising, and, in the mid-1980s was Director of Advertising and Sales Promotion at Microsoft Corporation. She is also a former managing editor of Gorp.com, the pioneering outdoor recreation website, and her personal website, The Difference Dictionary, was declared a "Cool Site of the Day" — the coolest spot on the Internet for January 22, 1997. Her stories often draw on her understanding of the Byzantine dynamics of the corporate workplace.

Originally from Boston, Eileen Gunn has lived most recently in New York and San Francisco, and is now a resident of Seattle. Since 1988, she has served on the board of directors of the internationally known Clarion West Writers Workshop, which numbers among its graduates a significant number of the SF/fantasy field’s writers and editors. She is at work on a biography of the fantasist Avram Davidson.