From the back of Dawn Song mass market paperback:

SHARON GREEN grew up in Brooklyn and discovered science fiction at the age of twelve.  A voracious reader, she qualified for the school library medal, but didn't get it because the librarian disapproved of sf.  ("if you want to press the point," she writes, "you could say Lucky Starr, Space Ranger, got me in trouble in junior high school.  It would be the literal truth.")  Later, she earned her B.A. at New York University, where she got rid of an unwanted admirer by convincing him that she was from another planet.

Currently Ms. Green lives in New Jersey with her sons, her cats, and her Atari computer.  A prolific writer, she is the author of over a dozen books, including The Far Side of Forever, the Tenrilian Warrior series, Lady Blade, Lord Fighter, the Jalav series, and The Rebel Prince.  When she's not at her computer, she is engaging in one of her diverse hobbies: Tae Kwon Do (in which she has a purple belt), knitting, horseback riding, fencing, and archery.