Miriam Allen deFord 
The 58th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: Miriam Allen deFord 

The 58th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK® focuses on Miriam Allen de Ford (1888-1975), one of the early female writers of science fiction and fantasy (though she also wrote in mysteries, true crime, and other nonfiction). Though the Internet Science Fiction Database notes her first genre publication as “Ghostly Hands” in January 1928 she began publishing science fiction in 1950. Over the next 25 years, she published a steady stream of stories in many of the top science fiction magazines of the day.