Rachel Swirsky

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Rachel Swirsky (* 14. April 1982 in San José ) is an American science fiction - and fantasy - writer , poet and editor.

She founded the Podcast Podcast and edited it from 2008 to 2010. In 2013, she was Vice President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America .

Her work has been published in magazines such as PANK , the Konundrum Engine Literary Review , and the New Haven Review . Her science fiction and fantasy literature has appeared in various magazines such as Tor.com , Subterranean Magazine , Beneath Ceaseless Skies , Fantasy Magazine , Interzone , Realms of Fantasy , and Weird Tales . In addition, they have appeared in many collections such as Gardner Dozoiss The Year's Best Science Fiction , Rich Hortons The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy , Jonathan Strahan's Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year and Jeff & Ann VanderMeers Best American Fantasy .

biography

She studied creative writing , majoring in science fiction and fantasy, at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Iowa Writers' Workshop without a degree while serving as an assistant teacher at the University of Iowa . In 2005 she took part in the Clarion West Writers' Workshop .

In addition to her novels, Swirsky wrote critical essays, reviews, and other non-fiction books.

She gave some of her works to charitable anthologies free of charge . Her story, Heat Engine , appeared in Last Bird, Drink Head , a flash fiction anthology sponsored by ProLiteracy . This organization promotes programs against illiteracy . In September 2010, she contributed a story to the Clash of the Geeks folk book collection by Subterranean Press , which supported the Lupus Alliance of America.

Swirska lives in Bakersfield , California and describes herself as a person with a disability , which she justifies with her Jewish origins.

Awards

Her novella The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window won the Nebula Award in 2010 and was nominated for the Hugo Award in 2011 , as well as for the World Fantasy Award . Her short story If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love won the Nebula Award in 2013 and was nominated for a Hugo.

In addition to winning Nebula, many of her works were nominated for awards and received attention. Her novella A Memory of Wind was a finalist at the Nebula Awards in 2009. The novella Eros, Philia, Agape was nominated for the Hugo, Theodore Sturgeon Award , and the Locus Award . Her novella Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia was nominated for the Nebula and the Hugo. Her story Fields of Gold was also nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula.

Works

Story collections

Published anthology

Short stories (selection)

  • Defiled Imagination (English) in PANK Magazine , October 2010
  • The Monster's Million Facer (English) in Tor.com, September 8th 2010
  • The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window in Subterranean Magazine , Summer 2010
  • A Memory of Wind on Tor.com, Nov. 3, 2009
  • Eros, Philia, Agape (English) in Tor.com, 3. March 2009
  • Marrying the Sun in Fantasy Magazine , June 30, 2008
  • How the World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth in Electric Velocipede Issue 13
  • A Monkey Will Never Be Rid of Its Black Hands in Subterranean Magazine , Winter 2008
  • Dispersed by the Sun, Melting in the Wind in Subterranean Magazine , Spring 2007
  • The Debt of the Innocent in Glorifying Terrorism , 2007
  • Heart failure in Interzone 210
  • A Letter Never Sent in Konundrum Engine Literary Review
  • Scene from a Dystopia in Subterranean Magazine # 4, 2006

Seals (selection)

  • Mundane in Ideomancer, 2010
  • Evening in Pompeii in Ideomancer , 2010
  • String Theory in Ideomancer , September 2009
  • Remembering the World in Electric Velocipede # 15-16, Winter 2008
  • The Passionate Oven in Helix # 8
  • Pro-Life Patter in Diet Soap # 2
  • Terrible Lizards in Diet Soap # 1, online edition, February 2008
  • Invitation to Emerald in Lone Star Stories , December 2007
  • A Season with the Geese in Abyss & Apex , 2007
  • The Oracle on River Street in Goblin Fruit , Summer 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Current Officers. SFWA, July 1, 2013, accessed July 16, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Rachel Swirsky. LinkedIn, accessed July 16, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Rachel Swirsky. (No longer available online.) Clarion West on March 5, 2007, archived from the original on June 19, 2011 ; Retrieved July 16, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Rachel Swirsky: The Complex Identity of the Archetypal Hero: A Fictional Treatise with Unicorn Pegasus Kittens | Alas, a blog. (No longer available online.) Amptoons.com, July 1, 2010, archived from the original on May 18, 2014 ; Retrieved July 16, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Rachel Swirsky. In: Macmillan . Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 2011 Nebula Award Winners. SFWA, May 21, 2011, accessed July 16, 2013 .
  7. ^ Monica Hesse: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America hold annual convention. In: The Washington Post. May 23, 2011, accessed July 16, 2013 .
  8. ^ Locus, 2011 Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners (access date August 21, 2011)
  9. ^ Renovation - Hugo Awards. (No longer available online.) Renovationsf.org, archived from the original on April 29, 2011 ; Retrieved July 16, 2013 .
  10. ^ Awards of the WFC. World Fantasy Convention 2011, accessed July 16, 2013 .
  11. ↑ 2013 Nebula Awards Winners. In: Locus . May 17, 2014, accessed May 17, 2014 .
  12. ↑ thehugoawards.org
  13. ^ Sheila Crosby: SFWA announces 2009 Nebula Awards winners. SFWA, May 15, 2010, accessed July 16, 2013 .
  14. ↑ 2010 Hugo Award Nominees. The Hugo Awards, April 4, 2010, accessed July 16, 2013 .
  15. ^ The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2010 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. (No longer available online.) Locusmag.com, archived from the original on October 18, 2012 ; Retrieved July 16, 2013 .
  16. ^ The Locus Index to SF Awards: Locus Award Nominees List. (No longer available online.) Mark R. Kelly and Locus Publications, archived from the original on December 21, 2008 ; Retrieved June 17, 2014 .
  17. ↑ 2012 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced. SFWA, February 20, 2013, accessed July 16, 2013 .
  18. ↑ 2012 Hugo Awards , at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved June 26, 2014.
  19. ↑ Hugo Awards 2012
  20. ↑ 2011 Nebula Awards Nominees announced , at SFWA.org ; published February 2012; retrieved June 27, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Swirsky, Rachel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose