Bryn Barnard  has painted seventeen covers for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as well as many paperback covers for Tor, Berkeley, Ace, Daw, Putnam, Signet, Roc, Baen, DC and Pocket  He has been called "one of the  masters of science fiction art" by the Christian Science Monitor. He has documented the U.S. space program for NASA, produced historical reconstructions for the National Geographic Society and created 200 feet of murals for Children's Hospital in Seattle. As author and artist of the books Outbreak and Dangerous Planet,  his work has  been called  "part Jared  Diamond ... part Stephen Jay Gould" by the New York Times Book Review, "pleasantly lurid" by the Wall Street Journal and "the stuff of nightmares" by the Denver Post.

Bryn studied art and anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and batik and shadow puppet theater at  Universiti Sains Malaysia. He has received honors from the Society of Illustrators New York and Los Angeles, a Fulbright fellowship and a Crane-Rogers Foundation Fellowship.

Bryn lives in Friday Harbor, Washington with his wife Rebecca and two children, Wynn and Parks.