Steve Rasnic Tem | |
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Born | 1950 (age 74–75) Jonesville, Virginia, U.S. |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | American |
Education | Virginia Tech Virginia Commonwealth University (BA) Colorado State University |
Genre | Horror fiction |
Notable awards | British Fantasy Award World Fantasy Award |
Spouse | Melanie Tem |
Children | 4 |
Steve Rasnic Tem (born 1950) is an American author. He was born in Jonesville, Virginia.
Rasnic attended college at Virginia Tech, and also at Virginia Commonwealth University. He earned a B.A. in English education. In 1974, he moved to Colorado and studied creative writing at Colorado State University. He married Melanie Kubachko, and the couple took the joint surname "Tem". [1] They had four children and lived in Colorado.
Rasnic Tem's short fiction has been compared to the work of Franz Kafka, Dino Buzzati, Ray Bradbury, and Raymond Carver,[ citation needed ] but to quote Joe R. Lansdale: "Steve Rasnic Tem is a school of writing unto himself." His 500 plus published pieces have garnered him a British Fantasy Award, a World Fantasy Award [2] and four Bram Stoker Awards.
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Work | Year & Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry | 1982 Philip K. Dick Award | Nominated | ||
Firestorm | 1983 World Fantasy Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
Excavation | 1987 Bram Stoker Award | First Novel | Nominated | |
Leaks | 1988 British Fantasy Award | Short Story | Won | |
Bodies and Heads | 1989 Bram Stoker Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
Back Windows | 1990 Bram Stoker Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
Head | 1992 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Poem | 10th Place | [5] |
High Fantastic | 1996 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
Halloween Street | 1999 International Horror Guild Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | [6] |
1999 Bram Stoker Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | ||
City Fishing | 2000 Bram Stoker Award | Fiction Collection | Nominated | |
2000 International Horror Guild Award | Collection | Won | ||
The Man on the Ceiling (with Melanie Tem) | 2000 Bram Stoker Award | Long Fiction | Won | |
2000 International Horror Guild Award | Long Story | Won | ||
2001 World Fantasy Award | Novella | Won | ||
2009 Shirley Jackson Award | Novel | Nominated | [7] | |
In These Final Days of Sales | 2001 Bram Stoker Award | Long Fiction | Won | |
Imagination Box (with Melanie Tem) | 2002 International Horror Guild Award | Collection | Nominated | |
The Book of Days | 2003 International Horror Guild Award | Novel | Nominated | |
The Breavement Photographer | 2003 International Horror Guild Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
Invisible | 2005 Bram Stoker Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
2005 International Horror Guild Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | ||
The Disease Artist | 2006 International Horror Guild Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
In Concert (with Melanie Tem) | 2008 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novelette | 3rd Place | [8] |
A Letter from the Emperor | 2011 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | [9] |
2011 Theodore Sturgeon Award | Short Science Fiction | Finalist | [10] | |
Blood Kin | 2014 Bram Stoker Award | Novel | Won | |
In the Lovecraft Museum | 2016 Shirley Jackson Award | Novella | Nominated | [11] |
Ubo | 2017 Bram Stoker Award | Novel | Nominated | |
2018 Locus Award | Horror Novel | Nominated | ||
2023 Bram Stoker Award | Lifetime Achievement | Won | ||