Alix E. Harrow

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Alix E. Harrow
Born (1989-11-09) November 9, 1989 (age 34)
Idaho, United States
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Education Berea College (BA)
University of Vermont (MA)
Genre Science fiction, speculative fiction
Years active2014–present
Notable works"A Witch's Guide to Escape" (2018)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019)
Notable awards Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2019)
BFA for Best Fantasy Novel (2021)
Website
alixeharrow.wixsite.com/author

Alix E. Harrow (born November 9, 1989) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award, and in 2019 she won a Hugo Award for her story "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies". She has published under the name Alix Heintzman.

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Life and career

Alix E. Harrow was born on November 9, 1989, in the United States and grew up in Kentucky. [1] She enrolled at Berea College at age sixteen, where she completed a bachelor's degree in history in three years. [1] [2] She then went on to earn a master's degree in history from the University of Vermont. [1] Before working as a full-time writer, Harrow was an academic historian who taught as an adjunct professor of African and African American history at Eastern Kentucky University. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Her first novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019), was received with critical acclaim and nominated for multiple awards, including the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award for best novel. [9] [10] [11] A second novel, The Once and Future Witches (2020), won a British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award). [12] [13] [14] A more recent novella, A Spindle Splintered (2021), was nominated for a Hugo Award for best novella.

Harrow has also written short fiction for Shimmer , Strange Horizons , Tor.com , and Apex . This has produced a Hugo award winning 2018 short story called "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" (published by Apex).

Harrow lives in Virginia [15] with her husband, Nick Stiner, and two children.

Awards

YearNomineeAwardCategoryResultRef
2019 "A Witch's Guide to Escape" Eugie Award (Short Fiction)Finalist [16]
Hugo Short Story Won [16]
Locus Short Story 6th [16]
Nebula Short Story Nominated [16]
World Fantasy Awards Short Fiction Nominated [16]
2020 The Ten Thousand Doors of January BFA Fantasy NovelNominated [16]
NewcomerNominated [16]
Dragon Awards Sci-fi NovelNominated [16]
Hugo Novel Nominated [16] [9]
Locus First Novel 3rd [16]
Nebula Novel Nominated [16] [10]
World Fantasy Awards Novel Nominated [16] [11]
"Do Not Look Back, My Lion" Hugo Short Story Nominated [16]
2021 The Once and Future Witches BFA Fantasy NovelWon [12] [13] [14]
Dragon Awards Fantasy NovelNominated [16]
Locus Award Fantasy Novel 5th [16]
"The Sycamore and the Sybil" Eugie Award (Short Fiction)Finalist [16]
Locus Short Story 6th [16]
2022 A Spindle Splintered Hugo Novella Nominated [16]
Locus Novella 4th [16]
"Mr. Death" Hugo Short Story Nominated [16]
Locus Short Story 2nd [16]
Nebula Nebula—Short Story Nominated [16]

Bibliography

Novels

Novellas

Short fiction

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  15. ↑ "Return to the Multiverse of Fairy Tales: Revealing a Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow". Tor.com. September 8, 2021.
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