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James Tiptree, Jr. Award
The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is an annual literary prize for works of science fiction ("SF") or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated in February of 1991 by SF authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler, subsequent to a discussion at WisCon (the world's leading...
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Gwyneth Jones
Ann Halam is a pseudonym of the British author Gwyneth Jones used when she writes young adult/juvenile fiction.
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Eleanor Arnason
Eleanor Atwood Arnason (born 1942) is an American author of science fiction novels and short stories.
Arnason is the daughter of H. Harvard Arnason, who became the director of the Walker Art Center in 1951, and Elizabeth Yard Arnason, a social...
Maureen F. McHugh
Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959) is a science fiction and fantasy writer.
Her first published story appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories. Her first novel,...
Nicola Griffith
Nicola Griffith (born 30 September, 1960 in Yorkshire, England) is a British science fiction author, editor and essayist. Griffith is a 1988 alum of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction writing workshop and has won a Nebula Award,...
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (pronounced /ˈɜrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/; born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the genres of fantasy and science fiction....
Nancy Springer
Nancy Connor Springer (born 1948 in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction. Her novel Larque on the Wing won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and she also received honors from the...
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Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand (born March 29, 1957) is an American writer.
Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She studied drama and anthropology at The Catholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand has lived in coastal Maine, the setting for...
Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak (born 1933) is professor emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay. He is best known for his 1968 text, The Making of a Counter Culture.
Roszak received his B.A. from UCLA and Ph.D. in History from Princeton...
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Mary Doria Russell
Mary Doria Russell (born 1950) is an American novelist.
Russell was born in the suburbs of Chicago. Her parents were both in the military: her father was a Marine Corps drill instructor, and her mother was a Navy nurse. She graduated from Glenbard...
Candas Jane Dorsey
Candas Jane Dorsey (born November 16, 1952) is a Canadian poet and science fiction novelist.
Born and still living in Edmonton, Alberta, Dorsey became a writer from an early age, and a freelance writer since 1980. She writes across genre boundaries,...
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Raphael Carter
Raphael Carter is an American science fiction author whose work, while sparse, has met with considerable acclaim.
Carter's debut postcyberpunk novel The Fortunate Fall (1996) was well received (a. o. Locus recommended reading list; in the Locus...
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Suzy McKee Charnas
Suzy McKee Charnas (born 1939 in New York City) is an American novelist and short story writer, writing primarily in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. She has won several awards for her fiction, including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award...
Molly Gloss
Molly Gloss (born 20 November 1944) is an American writer currently best known for science fiction works. Her novel Wild Life won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for work that explores or expands notions of gender. She won the 1990 Ken Kesey Award for...
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Hiromi Goto
Hiromi Goto (born December 31, 1966) is a Canadian novelist.
Born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, her family emigrated to Canada in 1969, settling in British Columbia. She studied at the University of Calgary and now lives in Burnaby, British Columbia....
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M. John Harrison
Michael John Harrison (born 26 July 1945), who writes as M. John Harrison, is an English author and reviewer, whose novels include In Viriconium (1982), Climbers (1989), and Light (2002). He currently resides in London.
Harrison was born in Rugby,...
John Kessel
John Kessel (b. 24 September 1950 in Buffalo, New York) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story author with several longer works to his credit. He won a Nebula Award in 1982 for his novella "Another Orphan,...
Matt Ruff
Matthew Theron Ruff (b. September 8, 1965 in Queens, New York) is an American author of thriller, sci-fi and comic novels.
Ruff grew up in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan; one of his teachers there was the memoirist...
Johanna Sinisalo
Aila Johanna Sinisalo (born 22 June 1958, Sodankylä) is a Finnish science fiction and fantasy writer. She studied comparative literature and drama, amongst other subjects, at the University of Tampere. Professionally she worked in the advertising...
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Joe Haldeman
Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.
Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a...
Geoff Ryman
Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and surrealistic or "slipstream" fiction.
Ryman currently lectures in Creative Writing for University of Manchester's English Department. His most recent full-length novel,...
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Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente (born Bethany Thomas May 5, 1979, Seattle, Washington) is an American poet, novelist, and literary critic. Her writing tends to be postmodern, with rich language (drawing upon her classics education) and surrealist elements....
Shelley Jackson
Shelley Jackson (born 1963) is a writer and artist known for her cross-genre experiments, including her groundbreaking work of hyperfiction, Patchwork Girl (1995). In 2006, Jackson published her first novel, Half Life.
Born in the Philippines,...
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Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall (born 1974 in Carlisle) is an English novelist, and poet. Her critically-acclaimed second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was nominated for the 2004 Man Booker Prize and achieved considerable international commercial success. She...
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Kelly Link
Kelly Link (born 1969 in Miami, Florida) is an American editor and author of short stories . While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination...
Nisi Shawl
Nisi Shawl is an African-American writer and journalist, born in Kalamazoo, Michigan (she was 16 in 1971). She is best known as a writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories.
Shawl is the co-author (with Cynthia Ward) of Writing the Other:...
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Julie Phillips
Julie Phillips (born Seattle, Washington) is a writer who writes about books, film, and culture. In early adulthood she became interested in feminism. Her articles have appeared in Newsday, Mademoiselle, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. Her...
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness (born 1971) is an American author, journalist and lecturer who lives in London. He holds both American and British citizenship (British since 2005).
Ness was born on Fort Belvoir army base, near Alexandria, Virginia in the United States...
