Lara Elena Donnelly

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Lara Elena Donnelly (2018)

Lara Elena Donnelly (born March 7, 1990 ) is an American writer.

Life

Donnelly grew up in a small town in Ohio and lived for a time in Louisville , Kentucky .

In 2007 and 2008 Donnelly was a participant in the Alpha Workshop , a course for young writers in the fields of science fiction , fantasy and horror . In 2012 she was a participant in the Clarion workshop in San Diego .

In 2013, Donnelly published a first story, The Bohemian Method, in Icarus magazine . Her first novel Amberlough was published in 2017, followed by the sequel Armistice in 2018 . Another volume in the series has been announced for 2019 under the title Amnesty .

Amberlough is a port city and one of the capital cities of Gedda, a confederation formed by four city-states. The two protagonists Cyril DePaul and his lover Aristide Makricosta are drawn into the political disputes. DePaul is an employee of Amberlough's secret service, Makricosta is a smuggler, and the two of them get along well as DePaul covers his partner's illegal activities and who in turn ignores DePaul's affairs. Apart from the fact that the novel is set in a fictional world, an American metropolis of the present or recent past with a liberal, cosmopolitan society could also form the background of the novel. Amberlough was nominated for the Nebula Award , the Locus Award and the Lambda Award in 2018 .

Donnelly lives in Harlem , New York .

bibliography

The Amberlough Dossier
  • 1 Amberlough (2017)
  • 2 Armistice (2018)
Short stories
  • The Bohemian Method (2013)
  • The Witches of Athens (2013)
  • In Flagrante Delicto (2013)
  • Chopin's Eyes (2014)
  • Homegrown Tomatoes (2014)
  • The Dirty American (2015)
  • Making Us Monsters (2017, with Sam J. Miller)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b About the Author. In: Lara Elena Donnelly: Amberlough . Tor Books, 2017, ISBN 978-1-4668-9341-2 .
  2. ↑ Publications & Awards , Alpha Writers Workshop page , accessed November 19, 2018.
  3. ↑ Alumni of the Clarion San Diego Workshop , accessed November 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Donnelly, Lara Elena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1990