Suzy McKee Charnas’ groundbreaking novel, The Vampire Tapestry, was an original, popular, and critically-acclaimed exploration of the vampire mythos. Charnas received a Nebula Award for her novella, “Unicorn Tapestry,” which is reprinted in Stagestruck Vampires. She also received the Tiptree Award for The Conqueror’s Child, the final installment in the controversial series, the Holdfast Chronicles. She received the Hugo Award for "Boobs," also reprinted in Stagestruck Vampires. Charnas has also written two vampire novels, four Young Adult novels, a mainstream novel about art, ghosts, and land fraud set in New Mexico, two plays, and the complete revision of the libretto to a musical, Nosferatu.

Charnas says: "I come from a long line of smart, tough, charming women who married clever but useless husbands, kicked the men out in exasperation, and raised the kids on their own. A born and bred New Yorker, child of two commercial artists, I was trained to be an artist myself. Nevertheless (or consequently), for the past thirty-plus years I've been living with my lawyer-husband in New Mexico, writing science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird non-fiction, and anything else that takes my fancy."