Background
Eskridge was born in Florida in 1960.
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Eskridge was born in Florida in 1960.
She attended Saint Paul"s School in Concord, New Hampshire, Northwestern University, and the University of South Florida, where she earned a Bachelor degree in Theatre Performance. She attended the Clarion Writers Workshop in 1988, where she met her partner, English novelist Nicola Griffith.
Her work is generally regarded as speculative fiction and is associated with the more literary edge of the category, as well as with the category of slipstream fiction. Eskridge has published short fiction and essays since 1990. Alien Jane also received a television adaptation on the short-lived Sciences-Fi Channel Series Welcome to Paradox.
Her first novel, Solitaire was published in 2002 by HarperCollins Eos.
Solitaire is character-driven science fiction set in a near-future corporate state. lieutenant was a New York Times Notable Book, a Borders Books Original Voices selection, and was a finalist for the Nebula, Endeavour and Spectrum awards.
Eskridge is now a full-time writer, screenwriter and independent editor/writing coach. She previously worked in a series of corporate positions, most recently as Vice President of Project Management at Wizards of the Coast.
She is currently the Board Chair of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.
Her story And Salome Danced received the $11,000 Astraea Prize and was nominated for the James Tiptree, Junior Award in 1995, and her story Alien Jane was a finalist for the Nebula Short story award, also in 1995. Her first collection of short fiction, Dangerous Space, was published in 2007. The title novella "Dangerous Space" was a Nebula Award finalist in 2009.
