engaging in Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party precinct politics. Published works Standalone novels Collections Standalone short stories "A Clear Day in the Motor City" (1973) "The Warlord of Saturn's Moons" (1974) "Ace 167" (1974) "The House by the Sea" (1975) "The Face on the Barroom Floor" (1976) with Ruth Berman "Going Down" (1977) "A Ceremony of Discontent" (1981) "The Ivory Comb" (1982) "Glam's Story" (1987) "Among the Featherless Bipeds" (1988) "A Brief History of the Order of St. Cyprian the Athlete" (1992) "The Dog's Story" (1996) "The Venetian Method" (1998) "Feeding the Mother: A Religious Anecdote" (1998) "The Grammarian's Five Daughters" (1999), available online "Origin Story" (2000) "Moby Quilt" (2001) "The Lost Mother: A Story Told by the Divers" (2002) "Knapsack Poems" (2002) "The Potter of Bones" (2002), available online "Big Black mama and Tentacle Man" (2003) "Big Ugly Mama and the Zk" (2003) "Big Green Mama Falls in Love" (2006) in Eidolon I (ed. Jonathan Strahan, Jeremy G. Byrne) "The Diner" (2008) "Patrick and Mr. Bear: A True Story" (2010) "Mammoths of the Great Plains" (2010) "My Husband Steinn" (2011) "The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times" (2012) "Big Red Mama in Time and Morris, Minnesota" (2013) "Big Brown Mama and Brer Rabbit" (2013) "Kormak the Lucky" (2013) "Ruins" (2015) in Old Venus (anthology) stories "The Hound of Merin" (1993) "The Semen Thief" (1994) "The Lovers" (1994) "The Small Black Box of Morality" (1996) "The Gauze Banner" (1998) "Dapple: A Historical Romance" (1999) "The Actors" (1999) "The Garden: A Science Fictional Romance" (2004) "Holmes Sherlock: A Mystery" (2012) available online Lydia Duluth stories "Stellar Harvest" (1999) "The Cloud Man" (2000) "Lifeline" (2001) Tomb of the Fathers (2010) "Tunnels" (2020) "Knapsack Poems" (????) "There are seven preceding Lydia Duluth stories, also three additional stories set in her universe. Most were published by Asimov’s." This is a quote from Eleanor's comments in From Earth to the Stars "Knapsack Poems" was reprinted in the June 2014 issue of the "Lightspeed Magazine" which is available as a paperback from amazon. Poems "Poem (untitled)" (1976) "The Land of Ordinary People" (1985) "On the Border" (1986) "On Writing" (1986) "There Was an Old Lady ..." (1987) "Clean House Poem" (1988) "Mars Poem" (1988) "Poem Written After I Read an Article Which Argued That Birds Are Descended From Dinosaurs" (1988) "Dragon Poem" (1989) "Amnita and the Giant Stinginess" (1990) "The Glutton: A Goxhat Accounting Chant" (2001) "Song from