MISHA

   Working name of US writer Misha Chocholak (? -), of Native American background, who began publishing material of genre interest with Prayers of Steel (coll 1989 chap), which assembles some fantasy poems; her second collection, Ke-Qua-Hawk-As (coll 1993), similarly incorporates poems, intermixed with stories based on Native American material. Her sf novel, Red Spider White Web (1990 UK), employs a congested CYBERPUNK venue (a USAin which sanitized enclaves called "Mickey-sans" shelter their lobotomized inhabitants from the excremental waste and POLLUTION outside) to darken the inherently romantic story of a dedicated artist whose intransigent attempts to do her work run afoul of surreally caricatured figures from the corrupted mire. The ending is grim.

   JC

   Other works: Dr. Ihoka's Cure1993, non-fiction.