Tanya Sue Huff (born 1957) is a Canadian fantasy author. Her stories have been published since the late 1980s, including five fantasy series and one science fiction series. One of these, her Blood Books series, featuring detective Vicki Nelson, was adapted for television under the title Blood Ties.
In the early 1980s she worked at Mr. Gameway's Ark, a game store in Downtown Toronto. From 1984 to 1992 she worked at Bakka, North America's oldest surviving science fiction book store, in Toronto.[4] During this time she wrote seven novels and nine short stories, many of which were subsequently published. Her first professional sale was to George Scithers, the editor of Amazing Stories in 1985, who bought her short story "Third Time Lucky".[1] She was a member of the Bunch of Seven writing group. In 1992, after living for 13 years in downtown Toronto, she moved with her four large cats to rural Ontario, where she currently resides with her wife, fellow fantasy writer Fiona Patton.[5][6]
Huff is one of the most prominent Canadian authors in the category of contemporary fantasy, a subgenre pioneered by Charles de Lint. Many of the scenes in her stories are near places where she has lived or frequented in Toronto, Kingston, and elsewhere. A prolific author, "she has written everything from horror to romantic fantasy to contemporary fantasy to humour to space opera."[7]
↑"Tanya Huff". Aweful Agent. Retrieved 23 November 2025. On the way to the idyllic rural existence she shares with her partner, Fiona Patton, six cats, and a Chihuahua, she acquired a degree in radio and television arts from Ryerson Polytechnic University—an education she was happy to finally use while writing her recent Smoke novels.
↑"Archived". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2023. Denvention 3 "Program Participant Biographies: Tanya Huff"
↑"Additional Author Guest". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 22 March 2011. Tanya Huff lives and writes in rural Ontario with her partner Fiona Patton, six and a half cats, and a chihuahua who only acknowledges her existence when she's holding food. She has a degree in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson that she's never really used which is hardly surprising since she graduated the year of the great CBC layoffs. Her time in the Canadian Naval Reserve taught her that there's an infinite number of ways to say, "Sir." and most of them don't mean what you think they do. Over the course of twenty-one novels and three short story collections, she has written everything from horror to romantic fantasy to contemporary fantasy to humour to space opera. Her latest book SMOKE AND ASHES, the third Tony Foster novel, is out this June in hardcover from DAW Books Inc. The first two Tony Foster books, SMOKE AND SHADOWS and SMOKE AND MIRRORS are available from InSight Out, the Gay and Lesbian book of the month club.
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