Jane Suzanne Fancher (born 1952) is a science fiction and fantasy author and artist.
She did not complete the series, but the experience led to Fancher becoming a prose author herself, as well as frequent professional collaboration and eventual marriage with Cherryh.
[4] Fancher, Cherryh and author Lynn Abbey run an online publishing house, Closed Circle, to market their own work.
She has virtual degrees in Physics and Anthropology from Washington State University[clarification needed] and training in computer programming, psychology, philosophy, and history.
[6] Fancher currently lives in Spokane, Washington with what she mischievously calls her 'spousal unit',[7] science fiction writer C. J. Cherryh (Carolyn Janice Cherry).