Cat Rambo

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Rambo at a reading in the KGB Bar (2009)

Catherine Rambo (* 1963 in Bryan , Texas ) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor who lives in the Pacific Northwest of the USA . From 2007 to 2011 she was co-editor of Fantasy Magazine, for which she was nominated for the 2012 World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional. In 2007 she published The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories with Jeff VanderMeer .

repertoire

Her short stories have appeared in Asimov’s , Clarkesworld Magazine and on Tor.com , among others . Her short story Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain , published in 2012, was a finalist for the Nebula Award. Her first novel, Beasts of Tabat (Wordfire Press, 2005) is the first volume in a four-volume fantasy cycle.

Rambo writes mostly fantasy and science fiction. She also worked on a round-robin writing project in the New Weird genre, in which each author contributed a section to a narrative ( Festival Lives in The New Weird anthology . Edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer , 2008, p. 365 ff).

She is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and Clarion West Writers' Workshop . Rambo works on Armageddon MUD under the name Sanvean , and writes articles on computer games. She worked as a technical writer for Microsoft and Security Dynamics, among others . Rambo is a member of the Codex Writers Group, an online community of science fiction and fantasy writers. In 2008 she became chair of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) copyright committee .

In 2008 she donated her archive to the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University .

After one year as Vice-President of SFWA, she was elected President of SFWA for two years on July 1, 2015. Together with Fran Wilde she edited Ad Astra: the SFWA 50th Anniversary Cookbook (2015).

Works (selection)

Short stories:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cat Rambo - Summary Bibliography. In: isfdb.org. Retrieved September 10, 2015 .
  2. ^ Marshall Payne: An Interview with Cat Rambo. (No longer available online.) In: The Fix. July 1, 2008, archived from the original on May 25, 2010 ; accessed on September 10, 2015 .
  3. ^ A b Ian Randal Strock: SFWA appoints three new coordinators. In: www.sfscope.com. July 8, 2008, accessed September 10, 2015 .
  4. ^ Iulian Ionescu: Interview with Author and Editor Cat Rambo . In: Fantasy Scroll Magazine (fantasyscrollmag.com) . December 1, 2014. Accessed September 10, 2015.
  5. ^ The New Weird 1st edition 2008 in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
  6. ↑ Ursula Pflug: The New Weird. A Review of the Anthology. (No longer available online.) In: www.irosf.com. July 2008, archived from the original on July 7, 2015 ; accessed on September 10, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.irosf.com
  7. ^ Cat Rambo: I Think, Therefore I Roleplay. In: kittywumpus.net. Imaginary Ralities, January 2000, accessed September 9, 2015 (republished on the author's website).
  8. ↑ Cat Rambo Papers | Northern Illinois University.
  9. ↑ 2015 SFWA Election Results.
  10. ↑ SFWA Cookbook Available For Pre-Order.
personal data
SURNAME Rambo, Cat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rambo, Catherine (full first name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bryan , Texas