The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (75 page)

Zen Cho
is a Malaysian writer of fantasy and romance. Her short stories have appeared in publications in the USA, UK, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia. She was a finalist for the 2013 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

Élisabeth Vonarburg
was born
to life in 1947 (France), and to science fiction in 1964. Taught French Literature and Creative Writing on and off at various universities in Quebec (since immigration, in 1973). “Full-time writer” since 1990 (despite a PhD. in Creative Writing, 1987), i.e. singer-songwriter, translator, SF convention organizer, literary editor (
Solaris
magazine), essayist. Still managed to publish some fiction,
among which nineteen novels, some translated into English (
The Silent City, The Maerlande Chronicles, Reluctant Voyagers, Tyranaël
, Book I and II); nine short story collections in French, two in English (
Slow Engine of Time, Blood Out of a Stone
); also three poetry collections, and four books for children and young adults. More than thirty awards in France, Canada, Quebec, and the United States.
Her five-book series Reine de Mémoire (2005–2007), received four major awards in Quebec.

Carrie Vaughn
is the author of the
New York Times
bestselling series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty, the most recent installment of which is
Kitty in the Underworld
. She’s written several other contemporary fantasy and young adult novels, as well as upwards of seventy short stories. She’s a contributor
to the Wild Cards series of shared-world superhero books edited by George R. R. Martin and a graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. Visit her at
www.carrievaughn.com
.

Hao Jingfang
(jessica-hjf.blog.163.com/) is the author of two novels and numerous short stories published in a
variety of Chinese venues such as
Science Fiction World
,
Mengya
,
New Science Fiction,
and
New Realms of Fantasy and Science Fiction
. She has been nominated for the Galaxy Award, China’s highest honor for science fiction. Currently, Ms. Hao is pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics at Tsinghua University in China.

Nicole Kornher-Stace
was born in Philadelphia in 1983, moved from the East Coast to the West
Coast and back again by the time she was five, and currently lives in New Paltz, New York, with one husband, three ferrets, one Changeling, and many, many books. Her short fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of magazines and anthologies, including
Best American Fantasy, Clockwork Phoenix 3
and
4, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, Apex,
and
Fantasy Magazine
. Her poem “The
Changeling Always Wins” placed second in the 2010 short form Rhysling Award, and her short fiction has been longlisted for the British Fantasy Awards and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the author of
Desideria
,
Demon Lovers and Other Difficulties
, and
The Winter Triptych
. Her latest novel,
Archivist Wasp
, is forthcoming from Big
Mouth House, Small Beer Press’s young adult imprint, in
late 2014. She can be found online at
www.nicolekornherstace.com
or
wirewalking.livejournal.com
.

Shira Lipkin
has managed to convince
Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Stone Telling, Clockwork Phoenix 4
, and other otherwise-sensible magazines and anthologies to publish her work; two of her stories have been recognized as Million Writers Award Notable Stories, and she has won the Rhysling Award
for best short poem. She lives in Boston and, in her spare time, fights crime with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. Her cat is bigger than her dog.

Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
is an Octavia Butler Scholar. She was also the first Filipina writer to attend Clarion West. Her work has appeared in publications such as
Apex Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, Interzone, Clarkesworld Magazine, Philippine
Genre Stories,
and
Philippine Speculative Fiction
. She writes the Movements column for
Strange Horizons
where she looks at genre from the perspective of someone who has grown up outside the West and who now lives in the diaspora. Visit her website at
rcloenenruiz.com
or find her on twitter
@rcloenenruiz

Nancy Kress
is the author of thirty-two books, including twenty-five novels, four collections
of short stories, three books about writing. Her work has won two Hugos (“Beggars in Spain” and “The Erdmann Nexus”), four Nebulas (all for short fiction), a Sturgeon (“The Flowers of Aulit Prison”), and a John W. Campbell Memorial award (for
Probability Space
). The novels include science fiction, fantasy, and thrillers; many concern genetic engineering. Her most recent work is the Nebula-winning
and Hugo-nominated
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
(Tachyon, 2012), a long novella of ecodisaster, time travel, and human resiliency. Intermittently, she teaches writing workshops at various venues around the country, including Clarion and Taos Toolbox (yearly, with Walter Jon Williams). A few years ago she taught at the University of Leipzig as the visiting Picador professor.
She is currently working on a long, as-yet-untitled SF novel. Nancy lives in Seattle with her husband, writer Jack Skillingstead, and Cosette, the world’s most spoiled toy poodle.

E. Lily Yu
was the 2012 recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and a 2012 Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominee. In 2012 she attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a Stanley Elkin Scholar,
and in 2013 she attended Clarion West. Her stories have appeared in
McSweeney’s
,
Clarkesworld Magazine
,
Boston Review
,
Kenyon Review Online, Apex,
and
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year
. She is working on a novel, a video game, and a PhD.

Wearing several hats,
Toiya Kristen Finley
is a writer, editor, game designer, and narrative designer/game writer from Nashville, Tennessee. She
holds a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from Binghamton University and has published over sixty pieces of fiction and non-fiction. She has worked as a game designer, narrative designer, and game writer (or some combination of the three) on several unreleased social and mobile games for both children and general audiences. She currently serves as an executive board member on the International
Game Developers Association’s Game Writing Special Interest Group. Her current projects include a graphic novel, an animated children’s YouTube series, and a couple of her own mobile games. A co-authored book on narrative design will be published by Focal Press in 2015.

Kameron Hurley
is the author of the novels
God’s War
,
Infidel,
and
Rapture,
a science-fantasy noir series which earned her the
Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer and the Kitschy Award for Best Debut Novel. She has been a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and the BSFA Award for Best Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in
Lightspeed Magazine, Escape Pod
, and
Strange Horizons
. Hurley’s latest novel,
The Mirror Empire,
is available from Angry Robot Books in September 2014.

Genevieve Valentine
’s first
novel,
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
, won the 2012 Crawford Award.
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
, a 1920s retelling of ‘‘The Twelve Dancing Princesses,’’ is out from Atria in 2014. Her short fiction has appeared in
Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, Journal of Mythic Arts, Lightspeed
, and others, and the anthologies
Federations, After, Teeth,
and more. Her nonfiction and
reviews
have appeared at
NPR.org
,
The A.V. Club
,
Strange Horizons
,
io9
, and more, and she is a co-author of
Geek Wisdom
(Quirk Books). Her appetite for bad movies is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks at
genevievevalentine.com
.

Aliette de Bodard
lives and works in Paris, where she has a day job as a System Engineer. In her spare time she writes speculative fiction: her Aztec noir trilogy
Obsidian
and Blood
is published by Angry Robot. Her short fiction has appeared in
Clarkesworld Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies
, and Gardner Dozois’s
Year’s Best Science Fiction
, and garnered her a Locus Award, a Nebula Award and a British Science Fiction Association Award. She blogs her thoughts on writing and her recipes of Vietnamese food at
aliettedebodard.com
.

Greer Gilman
’s mythic fictions
Moonwise
and
Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales
have (between them) won the Tiptree, World Fantasy, and Crawford Awards, and have been shortlisted for the Nebula and Mythopoeic awards. “Down the Wall” is a thought-experiment: a vision of a city under godblitz, in a post-apocalyptic Cloud. Her latest chapbook,
Cry Murder! In a Small Voice
, is a Jacobean noir detective story. Someone is murdering boy players;
Ben Jonson investigates. A second mystery,
Exit, Pursued by a Bear
, is forthcoming from Small Beer Press. Besides her three books, she has published other short work, poetry, and criticism. Her essay on “The Languages of the Fantastic” appears in
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
. For many years a librarian at Harvard, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She likes to quip that she
does everything James Joyce ever did, only backward and in high heels.

Karin Tidbeck
is the award-winning author of
Jagannath
. She lives in Malmö, Sweden, where she works as a creative-writing teacher, translator, and consultant of all things fictional and interactive. She has published short stories and poetry in Swedish since 2002 and English since 2010. Her short fiction has appeared in publications
like
Weird Tales,
Tor.com
, Lightspeed Magazine
and numerous anthologies including
The Time-Travelers Almanac
,
Steampunk Revolution
and
Aliens: Recent Encounters
.

Nisi Shawl
’s collection
Filter House
, one of two winners of the
2009 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, was a finalist for the 2009 World Fantasy Award; the story selected from that collection, “Good Boy,” was also nominated for the award. Shawl’s
other stories have been published at
Strange Horizons
, in
Asimov’s SF Magazine
, and in numerous anthologies including
The Moment of Change
,
The Other Half of the Sky
, and both volumes of
Dark Matter
. She was WisCon 35’s Guest of Honor, and she has spoken at Smith and Spelman Colleges. With Dr. Rebecca J. Holden she co-edited
Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices,
and Octavia E. Butler
. She edited
The WisCon Chronicles 5: Writing and Racial Identity
and currently edits book reviews for
The Cascadia Subduction Zone
, Aqueduct Press’s feminist literary quarterly. With Cynthia Ward, Shawl co-authored
Writing the Other: A Practical Approach
. In the 1970s, Shawl discovered and read many books of feminist science fiction, and she credits Suzy McKee Charnas’s
Walk to the End of the World
with giving her the idea that not only could she get away with saying audacious things, but that people would pay her for it. Currently she’s working on revisions to
Everfair
, a Belgian Congo steampunk novel forthcoming from Tor in 2015. Her website is
www.nisishawl.com
.

Thoraiya Dyer
is a three-time Aurealis Award-winning, three-time Ditmar Award-winning Australian
writer based in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. Her short fiction has appeared in
Clarkesworld Magazine, Apex, Cosmos
and
Analog
. It is forthcoming in the anthologies
Long Hidden
and
War Stories
. Her award-shortlisted collection of four original stories,
Asymmetry
, is available from Twelfth Planet Press. Dyer is represented by the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency. She is a member of SFWA. A
lapsed veterinarian, her other interests include bushwalking, archery and travel. Find her online at Goodreads, Twitter
@ThoraiyaDyer
or
www.thoraiyadyer.com
.

Ekaterina Sedia
resides in the Pinelands of New Jersey. Her critically acclaimed and award-nominated novels,
The Secret History of Moscow, The Alchemy of Stone, The House of Discarded Dreams,
and
Heart of Iron,
were published by Prime Books.
Her short stories have sold to
Analog, Baen’s Universe,
Subterranean
, and
Clarkesworld Magazine
, as well as numerous anthologies, including
Haunted Legends
and
Magic in the Mirrorstone
. She is also the editor of the anthologies
Paper Cities
(World Fantasy Award winner),
Running with the Pack, Bewere the Night
, and
Bloody Fabulous
, as well as
The Mammoth Book of Gaslit Romance
(forthcoming) and
Wilful Impropriety
. Her short-story collection,
Moscow But Dreaming
, was released by Prime Books in December 2012. Visit her fashion blog at
fishmonkey.blogspot.com

Benjanun Sriduangkaew
enjoys writing love letters to cities real and speculative, and space opera when she can get away with it. Her work can be found in
Clarkesworld Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies
, Jonathan Strahan’s
The Best Science
Fiction and Fantasy of the Year
and Rich Horton’s
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy
.

Angélica Gorodischer
, daughter of the writer Angélica de Arcal, was born in 1929 in Buenos Aires and has lived most of her life in Rosario, Argentina. From her first book of stories, she has displayed a mastery of science-fiction themes, handled with her own personal slant, and exemplary of the South
American fantasy tradition. Oral narrative techniques are a strong influence in her work, most notably in
Kalpa Imperial
, which since its publication has been considered a major work of modern fantasy narrative. Her second book translated into English is
Trafalgar
. Her books have also been translated into French, German, Italian, and Czech. She has received many awards for her work, in her country
and abroad, including the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.