Caren Gussoff

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Caren Gussoff
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BornCaren Sumption Gussoff
(1973-02-16) February 16, 1973 (age 50)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationNovelist, short story author
NationalityAmerican
GenreScience fiction, fantasy

Caren Sumption Gussoff (born February 16, 1973) is an American author. She writes both literary fiction and speculative fiction novels and short stories. She currently lives outside Seattle, Washington. [1] In 2020, Gussoff began using her married surname, Sumption, on her work, so publications appear under both Caren Gussoff and Caren Gussoff Sumption. [2]

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Biography

Caren Gussoff was born in New York, New York and is of partial Romany descent. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Clarion West. At Clarion West in 2008, she was awarded The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship by the Carl Brandon Society.

Upon publication of her first novel, Homecoming (Serpent's Tail, 2000), Gussoff was nominated as a Village Voice "Writer on the Verge." Her second book, The Wave and Other Stories, contained a novella influenced by Virginia Woolf's The Waves . Her third novel, The Birthday Problem, is a post-apocalyptic science fiction story about a communicable mental illness.

Gussoff's other fiction and essays have been anthologized by Serpent's Tail, Seal Press, and Prime Books. Gussoff also authored the setting chapter of the Gotham Writers' Workshop Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide (Bloomsbury USA). [3] In 2009, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer [4] featured Gussoff as a "Geek of the Week."

Gussoff is lesser-known for being a Neo-Burlesque performer. From 2000 to 2005, she combined science fiction and comedy performing with the stage name, "Betty Rage."

Major works

Novels

Short story/novella collections

Selected anthologies

Selected awards

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  1. ↑ "About me – spitkitten dot com". 21 December 2021. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
  2. ↑ "About me – spitkitten dot com". 21 December 2021. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
  3. ↑ About Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide
  4. ↑ Geek of the Week: Caren Gussoff of Brain Harvest
  5. ↑ "Caren Gussoff and the Birthday Problem – SFWA". 16 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "The Wave and Other Stories by Caren Gussoff". 24 July 2003.
  7. ↑ Gussoff, Caren (2015). Three songs for Roxy. Chris Sumption. Seattle. ISBN   978-1-61976-073-8. OCLC   919594515.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ↑ Dracula : rise of the beast. Bogi Takács, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Milena Benini, Emil Minchev, Caren Gussoff Sumption, David Thomas Moore. Oxford. 2018. ISBN   978-1-78108-666-7. OCLC   989963787.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ↑ "Speculative Literature Foundation Announces 2009 Gulliver Travel Research Grant Winner – SFWA". 23 December 2009.
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