Kelley Eskridge

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Kelley Eskridge

Kelley Eskridge (born 1960 in Florida ) is an American writer , screenwriter and writing coach.

Life

Eskridge studied at Northwestern University and the University of South Florida , where she received her bachelor's degrees in drama .

In 1988 she attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop , where she met her partner Nicola Griffith . Eskridge has published a novel and several short stories and essays. Her short story And Salome Danced won the Astraea Prize and was nominated for the 1995 James Tiptree, Jr Award. Her short story Alien Jane was a 1995 Nebula Short Story Award finalist . Alien Jane has been adapted for television.

Her first novel Solitaire was published by HarperCollins in 2002. It was a New York Times Notable Book , was selected in Borders Books Original Voices, and was a finalist for the Nebula, Endeavor and the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards . In 2017, the Solitaire- based film OtherLife was released , for which she wrote the script with Gregory Widen and Ben C. Lucas.

Eskridge's first collection of short stories, Dangerous Space , came out in 2007; the eponymous short story Dangerous Space was a 2009 Nebula Award finalist.

Before Eskridge became a full-time writer, screenwriter and writing coach, she worked for Wizards of the Coast, among others . She is the chairman of the board of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. She lives in Seattle with her wife Nicola Griffith .

bibliography

  • The Hum of Human Cities. (1990). Pulphouse: A Hardback Magazine . Volume 9.
  • Somewhere Down the Diamondback Road. (1993). Pulphouse: A Hardback Magazine. No. 15.
  • Strings. (February 1994). The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction .
  • And Salome Danced. (1994). Little Deaths , Ellen Datlow, ed. UK: Orion .
  • Alien Jane. (1995). Century Magazine. Part 1.
  • The Eye of the Storm. (1998). Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers. Ellen Datlow, ed. USA: HarperPrism .
  • Identity and Desire. (Essay, 1999). Women of Other Worlds. Tess Williams and Helen Merrick, eds. Australia: University of Western Australia Press .
  • Solitaire (2002, 2004). USA: HarperCollins Eos, September 2002 (hc), February 2004 (tp).
  • As We Mean to Go On. with Nicola Griffith (essay, 2005). Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times. Kevin Smokler, ed. USA: Basic Books .
  • Dangerous space. (collection, 2007). USA: Aqueduct Press .
  • Solitaire. (2011). Small beer press; Reprint edition
  • Eye of the Storm. (2012). Beyond binary. Brit Mandelo, ed. United States Lethe Press

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OtherLife . IMDb, accessed on February 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ Luke Buckmaster: Other Life review - virtual reality goes bad in ambitious Australian sci-fi thriller. The Guardian , October 3, 2017, accessed October 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Eskridge, Kelley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, screenwriter and writing coach
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Florida