Rachel Swirsky

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Rachel Swirsky
Born (1982-04-14) April 14, 1982 (age 42)
San Jose, California, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
Alma mater University of California, Santa Cruz
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Period2006–present
Genre Science fiction, fantasy
Notable works
Notable awards Nebula Award (2010, 2013)
Website
rachelswirsky.com

Rachel Swirsky (born April 14, 1982, in San Jose, California) is an American literary, speculative fiction and fantasy writer, poet, and editor living in Oregon. She was the founding editor of the PodCastle podcast and served as editor from 2008 to 2010. She served as vice president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2013. [1]

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She has been published in such literary publications as PANK, the Konundrum Engine Literary Review, and the New Haven Review . Her speculative fiction work has appeared in numerous markets including Tor.com , Subterranean Magazine , Beneath Ceaseless Skies , Fantasy Magazine, Interzone , Realms of Fantasy , and Weird Tales , and collected in a variety of year's best anthologies, including Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction , Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan's Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and Jeff & Ann VanderMeer's Best American Fantasy.

Her novella "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window" won the 2011 Nebula Award. [2] [3] and was also a nominee for a 2011 Hugo Award [4] and for the 2011 World Fantasy Award. [5] [6]

Swirsky's short story "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and was nominated for the Hugo award for best short story of 2013. [7] [8]

Biography

Swirsky was born in 1982 in San Jose, California into a Jewish family. [9] A graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Swirsky taught undergraduate science fiction and fantasy writing while a teaching assistant at the University of Iowa. [10] In 2005, she attended the Clarion West writers workshop. [11]

In addition to her fiction, Swirsky writes critical essays, reviews, and other non-fiction.

Swirsky has donated her writing to a number of charity anthologies. Her story "Heat Engine" appeared in Last Bird, Drink Head, a flash fiction anthology supporting the ProLiteracy charity. In September 2010, she contributed a story to the online chapbook story collection Clash of the Geeks, presented by Subterranean Press supporting the Lupus Alliance of America. [12]

Swirsky lives in Portland, Oregon. [13] She has described herself as a person with disability. [9]

Awards and critical reception

In addition to winning the Nebula, Swirsky's work has been nominated for awards and received other critical attention. Her novella "A Memory of Wind" was a finalist for the 2009 Nebula Awards ballot. [14] Her novelette "Eros, Philia, Agape" was nominated for the Hugo, [15] the Theodore Sturgeon Award, [16] the Locus Award, [17] the storySouth Million Writers Award, [18] [19] and the Tiptree Award. [20] Her novelette "Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia" was a finalist for the 2012 Nebula Awards ballot. [21] 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, [22] and the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. Her story "Fields of Gold" was nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, [23] and the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. [24] "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, [25] and was nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. [26]

Her poem "The Oracle on River Street" won third place for the Rhysling Award and was reprinted in the 2008 Rhysling anthology. [27] Other work has also been long-listed for the storySouth Million Writers Award, [28] the BSFA Award, and the Tiptree Award.

Her work has been listed on the annual Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading List. [29] [30] [31]

Bibliography

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Edited works

Selected short stories

Selected poetry

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