Misha

Misha Nogha Chocholak (born April 1955) is an American science fiction writer. Of Métis background, she is known for her 1990 cyberpunk novel Red Spider White Web.

Biography Misha Nogha Chocholak, of Cree-Métis and Norwegian ancestry, was born in April 1955 in Saint Paul, Minnesota and studied at Eastern Washington University, Portland State University, and Eastern Oregon University. In 1986, she published the short story "The Wishing Well" in the May issue of New Pathways. In 1989, she published Prayers of Steel, a story collection with poetry. She was also shortlisted for the 1991 Arthur C. Clarke Award for the book, but lost to Colin Greenland's Take Back Plenty.

Misha was an editor at science fiction magazine New Pathways; John Clute later described her as "influential".

In 2007, Misha published another poetry book Magpies & Tigers. She also began working on another novel, Yellowjacket.

As of 2008, Misha and her husband, composer Michael Chocholak, lived in Cove, Oregon. Ke-Qua-Hawk-As (1993)