Leah Cypess

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Leah Cypess
Born (1977-07-05) July 5, 1977 (age 46)
USA
Pen nameLeah Sokol
OccupationAuthor
Genre speculative fiction
Website
www.leahcypess.com

Leah Cypess is an American author of fantasy and science fiction, active in the field since 1995. Some of her earliest published stories were published under her maiden name, Leah Suslovich. [1] She also writes Judaica under the pen name Leah Sokol. [2]

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Biography

Cypess majored in biology at Brooklyn College and then studied law at Columbia Law School. She practiced law for close to two years at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York City. She currently lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband and four children. [3]

Literary career

Cypess wrote her first story in first grade; she sold her first professional story ("Temple of Stone") while still in high school. Continuing to write in her spare time, she sold her first novel fifteen years later. [3] Her "Nanny's Day" was nominated for the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. [1] [3] "On the Ship" placed third in the 2018 Asimov's Readers' Poll for Best Short Story. [1]

Her work has appeared in various periodicals, webzines and podcasts, including Analog Science Fiction & Fact , Asimov's Science Fiction , Cast of Wonders, Daily SF, Galaxy's Edge, Helix SF , Kaleria, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine , Odyssey, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show , Persistent Visions, StarShipSofa , and Strange Horizons , and the anthologies The Mythic Dream, Sword and Sorceress XXIII, Timeshift: Tales of Time, Unidentified Funny Objects, Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013, and Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2015. [4] [1]

Bibliography

Death Sworn series

Mistwood Universe

Sisters Ever After

Other novels

Collections

Short fiction

  • "Shapeshifter's Journey" (1995) (as Leah Suslovich)
  • "The Unicorn's Forest" (1995) (as Leah Suslovich)
  • "Quests, Inc." (1995) (as Leah Suslovich)
  • "Temple of Stone" (1997) (as Leah Suslovich)
  • "Changelings" (1998) (as Leah Suslovich)
  • "Dead Silent" (1998)
  • "Silent Blade" (2006)
  • "Shalott's Inn" (2008)
  • "Fair Trade" (2011)
  • "Twelvers" (2011)
  • "Nanny's Day" (2012)
  • "Clockwork" (2012)
  • "Straw-Spun" (2012)
  • "The Fifty-One Suitors of Princess Jamatpie" (2012)
  • "Distant Like the Stars" (2013)
  • "What We Ourselves Are Not" (2013)
  • "Forgiveness" (2015)
  • "Filtered" (2016)
  • "BLU3RD" (2016)
  • "Cupid's Compass" (2016)
  • "Neko Brushes" (2017)
  • "On the Ship" (2017)
  • "In Defense of the End of the World" (2017)
  • "The Forgetting" (2018)
  • "Chocolate Chip Cookies with Love Potion Infusion" (2018)
  • "Attachment Unavailable" (2018)
  • "Best Served Slow" (2018)
  • "Timshala" (2018)
  • "Cost of Wonder" (2019)
  • "All the Difference" (2019)
  • "Blue as Blood" (2019)
  • "Parenting License" (2019)
  • "The Disappeared" (2019)
  • "Uncommon" (2019)
  • "Across the River" (2019)
  • "A Pack of Tricks" (2020)
  • "Stepsister" (2020)
  • "A Sideways Slant of Light" (2020)
  • "Of Them All" (2020)
  • "What Togetherness Day Means to Me" (2021)
  • "From the Fire" (2021)
  • "The Night Dance" (2022)
  • "Offloaders" (2022) [5]
  • "The Fairy Godmother Advice Column" (2022)

Nonfiction

Interviews

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Leah Cypess at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. Lobell, Kylie Ora. "Leah Cypess on Daf Yomi and 'No Day Without Torah,'" in Jewish Journal, Jan. 8, 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 Leah Cypess. "About Me."
  4. Leah Cypess. "Short Stories."
  5. "Title: Offloaders".