Heather Gladney

Heather Gladney was born on February 10, 1957, in Hawthorne, California. She attended University of California, San Diego (1975–1977) and received a B.S. in pomology in 1980 from University of California, Davis.{{cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/catfantasticiv00copy/page/72 |chapter=The Tale of the Virtual Cat |title=Catfantastic IV |editor-last=Norton |editor-first=Andre |publisher=DAW Books |location=New York |author= |year=1996 |page=72 }} She has worked in various jobs including landscaping and horticulture. She grew up in the Mojave Desert which influenced her settings and characters.{{cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/contemporaryauth127gale/page/161/mode/2up |chapter=Gladney, Heather |title=Contemporary Authors |editor-first=Susan M. |editor-last=Trosky |publisher=Gale Research Company |volume=127 |year=1989 |pages=161–162 }}

She was nominated for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (1988), and finalist for the William Crawford Award (1988).

Charles Gramlich wrote:

:Teot's War creates a fully realized world that combines elements of Frank Herbert's Dune, Glen Cook's Dread Empire series, the Hyborian World of Robert E. Howard, and the real world of Earth's Bedouin tribes. It contains a delightful and realistic created language. But the best element is the superb writing.

Fritz Leiber reviewed Teot's War in Locus magazine.{{cite journal |title=Review: Teot's War by Heather Gladney |journal=Locus |last1=Leiber |first1=Fritz |author-link=Fritz Leiber |date=July 1987 |volume=20 |number=7 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_locus_1987-07_20_7/page/20 }} Teot's War was reviewed in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual (1988) by Larry D. Woods who said it offered significant explorations of themes of heroism and deception.{{cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionfa0000unse_i1h3/page/184 |chapter=Gladney, Heather |title=Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual |publisher=Meckler |location=Westport |last1=Woods |first1=Larry D. |year=1988 |page=184 }} A reviewer of Teot's War in Pandora magazine commended Gladney for her well-rounded characters and setting. Susanna Sturgis reviewed Teot's War in the journal Feminist Bookstore News.{{Cite journal |last=Sturgis |first=Susanna |date=October 1987 |title=Susanna Sturgis on Science Fiction – Teot's War |url=https://jstor.org/stable/community.28036316 |journal=Feminist Bookstore News |volume=10 |issue=3 |page=40 |access-date=2022-08-08 |jstor=community.28036316}}

Blood Storm was reviewed by Tom Whitmore in Locus.{{cite journal |title= Review: Blood Storm by Heather Gladney |journal=Locus |last1=Whitmore |first1=Tom |date=March 1989 |volume=22 |number=3 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_locus_1989-03_22_3/page/22 }}

Author Charles Gramlich wrote of Gladney that she is "a bit of a forgotten writer" having not published a new book since the 1980s, though one with a fan base, he says "few writers had such an auspicious start to their careers" and she has influenced his own writing.{{cite web |url=https://charlesgramlich.blogspot.com/2009/05/fridays-forgotten-books-teots-war.html |title=Friday's Forgotten Books: Teot's War |work=Charles Gramlich's Blog |author-link=Charles Gramlich |first1=Charles |last1=Gramlich |date=May 8, 2009 |access-date=August 8, 2022}}

• Song of Naga Teot: Part 1: Teot's War (1987)
• Song of Naga Teot: Part 2: Bloodstorm (1989)
• The Tale of the Virtual Cat, Catfantastic IV (book), DAW Books (1996)
• Blessed Event, Dead of Night (1994)
• "Be Careful What You Ask For", Midnight Zoo magazine, Vol.1 No.3, essay (May–June 1991){{cite journal |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59547 |title=Be Careful What You Ask For: How to Build Worlds, Look Silly, and Argue with Imaginary People |journal=Midnight Zoo |last1=Gladney |first1=Heather |date=May–June 1991 |volume=1 |number=3 |via=Internet Speculative Fiction Database }}
• Season of Sorrows, with Janny Wurts, Elfquest Against the Wind, Vol.4, Tor (1990){{Cite book |last1=Ashley |first1=Michael |first2=Mike |last2=Ashley |first3=William |last3=Contento |title=The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1995 |isbn=9780313240300 |page=591}}
• A Devotee of Conscience, Pandora magazine, No.20 (Summer 1988){{Cite web |title=The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998 |url=http://www.locusmag.com/index/t210.htm |access-date=2022-08-09 |work=Locus}}
• Teot's Warning (partially performed, libretto of a musical with Tim Randles) (1989)

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• [http://heat.mirthfulconfusion.com/ Official website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070310131902/http://home.comcast.net/~hgladney/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html Archival website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311004914/http://www.iblistforums.com/viewforum.php?f=1798 Official forum] at IBDoF
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