Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Jessica Amanda Salmonson (b. 1950) is an American author and editor of fantasy and horror fiction and poetry. She is the author of the Tomoe Gozen trilogy, a fantasy version of the tale of the historical female samurai Tomoe Gozen, as well as several short story and poetry collections. She has also edited a series of single-author collections of ghost stories and weird tales, many of them of historical significance to genre literature.