Richard Garfinkle

Richard Garfinkle
Born	1961 (age 63–64)
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Education	Clarion West Writers Workshop
Genre	Science fiction
Notable awards	Compton Crook Award (1997)
Spouse	Alessandra Kelley
Children	2
Website
www.richardgarfinkle.com/index.html

Richard Garfinkle (born 1961) is an American writer of science fiction.

He is best known as the author of Celestial Matters , a novel published by Tor Books, which won the Compton Crook Award in 1997. ^[1]

Garfinkle is a 1992 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and was nominated twice for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.^{[ citation needed ]}

He has taught at numerous writers' workshops at Windycon, an annual Chicago-area science fiction convention,^{[ citation needed ]} and at Chicon 2000, the 58th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Chicago. ^[2] He's married to Alessandra Kelley and has two daughters. ^[3]

Bibliography

• Celestial Matters (novel, Tor Books, April 1996). ISBN   0-312-85934-1
• All of an Instant (novel, Tor Books, November 1999). ISBN   0-312-86617-8
• "The Last Invasion of Ireland" in Once Upon a Galaxy, Wil McCarthy, Martin H. Greenberg, and John Helfers, eds. (collection, Daw Books, September 2002). ISBN   0-7564-0091-0
• Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter (nonfiction, with brother David Garfinkle, University of Chicago Press, November 2008). ISBN   0-226-28346-1
• Exaltations (novel, Achronal Press, June 2009). ISBN   978-0-578-03514-7
• Wayland's Principia (novel, Achronal Press, August 2009). ISBN   978-0-578-02362-5

References

1. "Compton Crook Award Winners". Baltimore Science Fiction Society . Retrieved June 25, 2012.
2. Chicago 2000 World Science Fiction Convention page
3. "Richard Garfinkle Science Fiction and Other Links".

External links

• Richard Garfinkle at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Richard Garfinkle's website