Background
Levenson was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He started writing in 1974. He is a 1983 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh He became a Christian in 1984. His first work of fiction was a short story, "Twenty Peasants," published in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine in 1991. Levenson is a two-time winner of the "Confluence Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Contest" for "Virtual Bridges" and "Reality Forbidden", cited herein. He is a former member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. Levenson's first separate novel in paperback format, I Will, was released in June 2010. One of Levenson's most intriguing characters, Khuminay, has returned again in "Khuminay and the Servant" in 'Cosmic Crime Stories' cited hereinbelow. This follows on the heels of the long awaited on-again, off-again novel "Year of the Human", cited herein.
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