External links
- Official website
- Livejournal
- Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes
- Lucy A. Snyder at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Interview at GUD Magazine
- Interview at Nightmare Magazine
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| Born | 1971 (age 53–54) South Carolina, U.S. |
| Citizenship | U.S. |
| Genre | Speculative fiction |
| Notable works | Soft Apocalypses, Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide, "Magdala Amygdala" |
| Notable awards | Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection 2014 Soft Apocalypses Non-Fiction 2014 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide Short Fiction 2012 Magdala Amygdala Poetry Collection 2014 Chimeric Machines |
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Lucy A. Snyder (born 1971) is an American science fiction, fantasy, humor, horror, and non-fiction writer.
Born in South Carolina, Snyder grew up in San Angelo, Texas, after her father was briefly assigned to Goodfellow Air Force Base. [1] She graduated from Angelo State University [2] and then moved to Bloomington, Indiana, for graduate studies in environmental science and journalism at Indiana University Bloomington. [3] She is a graduate of the 1995 Clarion Workshop; authors Nalo Hopkinson and Kelly Link were among her classmates. [4]
She lives in Columbus, Ohio, formerly with her now ex-husband and occasional coauthor Gary A. Braunbeck.
Over 80 of her short stories have appeared in various magazines, anthologies, and collections, including Apex Magazine , Nightmare Magazine , Pseudopod , Escape Pod and Short Trips: Destination Prague . One of her online humor stories, "Installing Linux on a Dead Badger", became the basis for a short humor collection of the same name published in 2007. Her 2012 horror story "Magdala Amygdala" won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction [5] and was selected to appear in The Best Horror of the Year:Volume Five (edited by Ellen Datlow). This story later served as the basis for her 2023 novel Sister, Maiden, Monster.
Her poetry has appeared in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet , GUD Magazine and Weird Tales . In March 2010, Snyder was awarded a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry for her collection Chimeric Machines. [6]
Snyder served as an editor for HMS Beagle , an online bioscience publication produced by Elsevier, and briefly served as a contributing editor for Strange Horizons . Since January 2010, she has mentored students in Seton Hill University's MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction.
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| 2009 | Chimeric Machines | Bram Stoker Award | Poetry Collection | Won |
| 2010 | Spellbent | Bram Stoker Award | First Novel | Nominated |
| Locus Award | First Novel | Nom (10th) | ||
| 2012 | "Magdala Amygdala" | Bram Stoker Award | Short Fiction | Won |
| 2014 | Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit | Bram Stoker Award | Non-Fiction | Won |
| Soft Apocalypses | Bram Stoker Award | Fiction Collection | Won | |
| 2015 | While the Black Stars Burn | Bram Stoker Award | Fiction Collection | Won |
| 2018 | Garden of Eldritch Delights | Bram Stoker Award | Fiction Collection | Nominated |
| 2019 | Shirley Jackson Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations | Shirley Jackson Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| 2021 | Exposed Nerves | Bram Stoker Award | Poetry Collection | Nominated |
| 2022 | Elgin Awards | Book | Nominated |
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