Andy Duncan (writer)

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Andy Duncan
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Duncan in 2008
Born (1964-09-21) September 21, 1964 (age 60)
Batesburg, South Carolina, U.S.
OccupationWriter
Education University of South Carolina
North Carolina State University (MA)
University of Alabama (MFA)
Clarion West Writers Workshop
Genres
Notable awards Theodore Sturgeon Award (2002)
World Fantasy Award (x3)
Nebula Award for Best Novelette (2012)
SpouseSydney
Website
www.angelfire.com/al/andyduncan/

Andy Duncan (born September 21, 1964) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose work frequently deals with Southern U.S. themes.

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Biography

Duncan was born in Batesburg, South Carolina and graduated from high school from W. Wyman King Academy. He earned a degree in journalism from the University of South Carolina and worked for seven years at the Greensboro News & Record .

Duncan earned an M.A. in creative writing (fiction) from North Carolina State University and an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Alabama. He also attended Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1994. [1]

In Fall 2008, he was hired as an Assistant Professor of English at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland. [1]

His novelette "Close Encounters" won the 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. [2] [3] His novelette "An Agent of Utopia" was a finalist for the 2018 Nebula Award. [4]

His fiction has appeared in a number of venues, including Asimov's Science Fiction , Realms of Fantasy , Weird Tales , Sci Fiction , and Escape Pod . He has also published poetry, essays, and reviews.

Professional activities

In October 2022, Andy Duncan was a guest on the Maryland State Library Agency podcast in the episode titled "Spooky Maryland Stories with Andy Duncan". [5]

He was a senior editor at Overdrive , a magazine for truck drivers, from 2003 to 2008. [6]

Duncan was an instructor at Clarion Workshop in 2004 and at Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2005.

He has frequently given readings and spoken on panels at such venues as the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, held each spring in Florida.

Duncan starred as the main character, Counter, in a live dramatization of Jeanne Beckwith's one-act play The Back Room, performed with award-winning authors John Kessel and James K. Morrow, author and scholar F. Brett Cox, writer and critic Fiona Kelleghan, Sydney Sowers, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer expert Rhonda V. Wilcox. The play was presented at the 17th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 19, 1999. [7]

Personal life

Duncan currently lives with his wife Sydney in Frostburg, Maryland along with a 17 year old dog Lily, and cats Bella and Hilary.

Awards

He has won the Theodore Sturgeon Award. [8] and three World Fantasy Awards, and has been nominated for Hugo, Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award. The Night Cache was nominated in the Best Novella category for a 2010 World Fantasy Award. [9]

WorkYear & AwardCategoryResultRef.
"Beluthahatchie"1998 Hugo Award Short StoryNominated
1998 Asimov's Readers' PollShort Story8th Place [10]
1998 Astounding Award New WriterNominated
"The Genetic Engineer Throws a Cocktail Party and Drinks Too Much"1999 Asimov's Readers' PollPoem5th Place [11]
"The Executioners' Guild"1999 HOMer AwardNovellaNominated [12]
1999 International Horror Guild Award Long FictionNominated [13]
2000 Nebula Award NovellaNominated
2000 Asimov's Readers' PollNovella2nd Place [14]
2000 Locus Award NovellaNominated [15]
"Green Fire"

(with Eileen Gunn, Pat Murphy & Michael Swanwick)

2001 Asimov's Readers' PollNovella8th Place [16]
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories2001 World Fantasy AwardCollectionWon
2001 Locus AwardCollectionNominated
"Fenneman's Mouth"2001 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
"Fortitude"2001 Nebula AwardNovellaNominated
"The Pottawatomie Giant"2001 World Fantasy Award Short FictionWon
2001 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
2002 Nebula AwardNoveletteNominated
"Lincoln in Frogmore"2001 World Fantasy AwardShort FictionNominated
2001 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
2002 Asimov's Readers' PollNovelette4th Place [17]
"Senator Bilbo"2002 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
"The Chief Designer"2002 Hugo AwardNovellaNominated
2002 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science FictionWon
2002 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
2002 Asimov's Readers' PollNovella4th Place [18]
2003 Nebula AwardNovellaNominated
"The Big Rock Candy Mountain"2003 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
"Daddy Mention and the Monday Skull"2004 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
"Zora and the Zombie"2004 Bram Stoker Award Long FictionNominated
2005 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
2005 Nebula AwardNoveletteNominated
"Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse"2007 Shirley Jackson Award Short StoryNominated [19]
2008 Nebula AwardShort StoryNominated
2008 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
"A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or The Devil's Ninth Question"2008 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
"The Night Cache"2009 Shirley Jackson AwardNoveletteNominated [20]
2010 World Fantasy AwardNovellaNominated
"The Dragaman's Bride"2010 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
"Slow as a Bullet"2012 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
"Close Encounters"2013 Nebula AwardNoveletteWon
2013 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories2013 Locus AwardCollectionNominated
2013 Shirley Jackson AwardCollectionNominated [21]
"Wakulla Springs"

(with Ellen Klages)

2014 Hugo AwardNovellaNominated
2014 Nebula AwardNovellaNominated
2014 World Fantasy AwardNovellaWon
2014 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
"An Agent of Utopia"2019 Nebula AwardNoveletteNominated
2019 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories2019 World Fantasy AwardCollectionNominated
2019 Locus AwardCollectionNominated
"Charlie Tells Another One"2020 Asimov's Readers' PollNovelette5th Place [22]
2021 Science Fiction Research Association Mary Kay Bray AwardWon [23]

Bibliography

Novels

Collections

Edited works

Nonfiction

References

  1. 1 2 "Andy Duncan page at Frostburg State University" . Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  2. ↑ "2012 Nebula Awards Winners". Locus Online News. Locus Publications. May 18, 2013. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Congratulations to the 2012 Nebula Award Winners". Tor.com . Macmillan Publishers. May 18, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  4. ↑ "2018 Nebula Finalists Announced". SFWA. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Scary Stories Across Maryland with Dr. Andy Duncan" (PDF). Maryland State Library Agency . September 30, 2022. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Andy Duncan: The Story Engine". Locus Online . Locus Publications. November 6, 2011. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
  7. ↑ Beckwith, Jeanne (March 19, 1999). The Back Room. WorldCat. OCLC   041296862.
  8. ↑ "The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award". Archived from the original on October 1, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  9. ↑ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "2010 World Fantasy Award Winners & Nominees". Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
  10. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+1998
  11. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_1999
  12. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?22+1999
  13. ↑ https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html
  14. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+2000
  15. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards
  16. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+2001
  17. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+2002
  18. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+2002
  19. ↑ https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2007-shirley-jackson-awards-winners/
  20. ↑ https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2009-shirley-jackson-awards-winners/
  21. ↑ https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2012-shirley-jackson-awards-winners/
  22. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+2020
  23. ↑ https://sfra.org/mary-kay-bray-award/
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