I came across this one because of an article about the Charity Blogathon, which included this paragraph, inter alia:

Nevertheless, Valente, a professional classicist and fantasy fiction writer, will put as much creative effort into this year's Blogathon posts as she did before. For her first Blogathon, she wrote the final 30,000 words of a novel of connected fairy tales, called "The Daughters' Tales," which recently sold to Bantam Dell Publishing Group. This year she's planning to write an adaptation of the Sumerian epic "The Descent of Inanna."

If you want to learn more about Valente, she's got a website and if you want to know even more, she's got a LiveJournal blog ...