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"Nancy Springer is a gifted fantasist whose work consistently improves," Catherine M. Currier asserted in Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, "growing stronger and more subtle with each new publication, and whose range is expanding in both audience and excitement." Not only has Springer shifted from traditional heroic tales to more contemporary fantasy, she has expanded into realistic works for children, often focusing on horses. All of her works, however, display an emphasis on character, whether they deal with a hero's quest to save the world or a teen's search for identity and friendship. As a result, her books have been distinguished not only by critics and peers, including the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Mystery Writers of America, but also by the young adult readers who have nominated her work for readers' choice awards. "For me, at least, fiction writing has always started with two things: people (fictional

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Nancy Springer, born in New Jersey, U.S., teaches creative writing at York College in Pennsylvania. She has written more than thirty SF and mystery novels, many with horses in them.

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As a child, I lived in Eden. I explored every inch of the fascinating brook that meandered crystalline amid wildflowers and willows to the swamp along the Passaic river where I discovered herons, hawks, muskrats, snapping turtles. 

Coming home from school feeling bruised, I turned to the brook, the swamp, the fields of farmland and the deep forest on Riker&#;s Hill to comfort me. Until I was thirteen I ran like a freckled fawn where the owls lived, where the wild phlox grew, where sometimes frogs could be caught.

Then my family moved away. The place we left must have been the last remaining rural spot in Livingston, New Jersey. A year later we came back and I saw the trees bulldozed, the wetlands drained and the brook banished to a culvert, all for the sake of a housing development. I have grieved for Eden lost ever since.

Writing this, I realize for the first it might seem odd that, bullied in school, I turned to Mother Nature instead of my mother. I can say only that Mom and Dad were good people, but theirs was the old-fashioned farmhouse style of parenting. Dad worked to &#;bring home the bacon&#;; Mom painted pet portraits. They fed me, clothed me, and let m

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