Z.P. Florian - Fanlore

Z.P. Florian as Yoda by Nancy Stasulis

Z.P. Florian was a prolific Star Wars fan writer, editor, and artist. She wrote gen, het, and slash, and edited the explicit adult het and slash zine The Rest of the Garbage. She also published a single author zine Anakin (zine) in 1991. In 1997, 1999 and 2000 she won Fan Quality Awards for Best Star Wars fan art. For some co-written fiction, she and various writing partners would use the pseudonym The Mud Dwarf. She once co-wrote a story with Ltlj that was so explicit, they were both too shy to put their names on it and it and it was published under The Mud Dwarf pseudonym.

Z.P. was born in Hungary, was a journalist, and had worked for Voice of America radio. She was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, and was sited in the acknowledgements of The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells. The character "Florian" in Wells' Fall of Ile-Rien series was named after her.

She remained active in media fandom, attending MediaWest*Con every year, until she began to suffer from Alzheimer's in the early 2000s.

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cover "Another Sky" 1	ZP Florian art work for her "Flyboys" story	cover "Another Sky" 4	cover "Another Sky" 7
illo art for 'Darkshine' - Another Sky 1	illo art for 'Still Life With A Ghost' - Another Sky 2	illo art for 'Initiation' - Another Sky 4	illo art for 'Pilot Emergency' - Another Sky 6
drawing, "Han after a torture session"	interior art Elusive Lover #2	interior art Elusive Lover #3	Anakin Skywalker
Luke Skywalker	Luke Skywalker