Dale Bailey

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Dale Bailey
Born (1968-01-24) January 24, 1968 (age 57)
Princeton, West Virginia, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
Genre speculative fiction
Website
dalebailey.com

Dale Frederick Bailey (born January 24, 1968) is an American author of speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy and horror, [1] active in the field since 1993. [2] He writes as Dale Bailey. [1] [2]

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Biography

Bailey grew up in Princeton, West Virginia and currently lives in North Carolina with his family. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Lenoir Rhyne University. [1]

Literary career

Bailey has stated, "One of the abiding disappointments of my life is that I’ve never had any of the interesting jobs that writers are supposed to have. I was never a gandy dancer or a stevedore. I never drove an ambulance on the Italian Front. I just went to school to study literature and started writing stories." [1] He has cited Ray Bradbury as his most important literary influence, along with Zenna Henderson, Clifford D. Simak and Stephen King. Other early influences included J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Robert A. Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov. [3]

His 2002 story "Death and Suffrage" has been adapted for television as Homecoming , an episode of Showtime’s Masters of Horror series first aired in 2005. [1]

Much of Bailey's short work has initially been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , but it has also appeared in various other periodicals and webzines, including Amazing Stories , Asimov's Science Fiction , Clarkesworld Magazine , Lightspeed , Nightmare Magazine , Pulphouse , Sci Fiction, and Tor.com , as well as the original anthologies Echoes, Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories, Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond, Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, and ZvR Diplomacy: A Zombies vs Robots Collection. [2]

Some of his works have been translated into French, German, Italian, or Spanish. [2]

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Collections
Stories [4]

Nonfiction

Awards

Bailey's work has been nominated for numerous genre literary awards, and won several.

His wins include "Death and Suffrage," which won the 2002 International Horror Guild Award for Best Intermediate Form, "The End of the End of Everything," which won the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette as well as placing 30th in the 2015 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette, "I Married a Monster from Outer Space," which placed first in the 2017 Asimov's Readers' Poll for Best Novelette. [2]

His nominations include:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Dale Bailey. "About."". Archived from the original on 2020-02-27. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Dale Bailey at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  3. ↑ Michele Chiappetta. "Q&A: Horror/Science Fiction Author Dale Bailey" (interview), October 4, 2018.
  4. ↑ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
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