Tom Crosshill

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Latvian author Tom Crosshill at the 75th Worldcon in Helsinki, Finland, in August 2017.
Born Riga, Latvia
Pen nameTom Crosshill
OccupationAuthor
Genre speculative fiction
Website
www.tomcrosshill.com

Tom Crosshill (real name Toms Kreicbergs) is a Latvian author of speculative and literary fiction, active since 2010. [1] [2] His work has appeared in publications in Chinese, Cuban, English, Finnish, Latvian and Polish. [3] Crosshill has been nominated for several Nebula awards [4] and won the European Science Fiction Society Award for Best Author in 2016. [5]

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Kreicbergs is also an entrepreneur and investment trainer who started his career working on Wall Street in the US. [1] Later he was a co-founder and the first CEO of the regulated asset management company INDEXO from 2017 to 2020. [6] He has been shortlisted by Forbes Baltics in the "40 under 40" list of financial professionals. [7]

Biography

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Crosshill was raised in Riga, Latvia, where he learned English at an early age to read American speculative fiction in its original language. He studied physics at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, and later lived in New York and Iowa before returning to his native Latvia. [1]

Literary career

Crosshill honed his craft at the Del Rey Online Writing Workshop in the late 1990s and was later a member of the Altered Fluid writers' group in New York and attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. [1] [8]

Aliette de Bodard (left) and Crosshill at Finncon 2013 in Helsinki, Finland Tom Crosshill and Aliette de Bodard.jpg
Aliette de Bodard (left) and Crosshill at Finncon 2013 in Helsinki, Finland

His work has appeared in various periodicals, podcasts and anthologies, including The Baltic Atlas, Beneath Ceaseless Skies , Clarkesworld , The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, Lightspeed , Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 , Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show , Sybil's Garage, and Writers of the Future Volume XXVI. [2] [8]

Recognition

Two of Crosshill's stories, "Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son" and "Fragmentation, or Ten A Thousand Goodbyes," have been nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. One short story, "The Magician and Laplace's Demon," has been nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette. [2] [4] [9] [10]

Crosshill's work has also been nominated for the WSFA Small Press Award [11] and the Annual Latvian Literary Award. [12] He was a winner in the Writers of the Future Contest, published in 2010. [13] He won the European Science Fiction Society Award for Best Author in 2016. [5]

Bibliography

Novels

Collections

Chapbooks

Short fiction

  • "To Be Alone Again" (2010)
  • "Waiting for Number Five" (2010)
  • "Thinking Woman's Crop of Fools" (2010)
  • "Seeing Double" (2010)
  • "Express to Paris by Dragon First Class" (2010)
  • "Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son" (2011) [17]
  • "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes" (2012) [18]
  • "Bearslayer and the Black Knight" (2012)
  • "A Well-Adjusted Man" (2012)
  • "The Magician and Laplace's Demon" (2014) [19]
  • "The Dark City Luminous" (2016)

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  2. 1 2 3 Tom Crosshill at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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  5. 1 2 Horvath, Nina. "ESFS Award Winners 2016! - Europa SF - The European Speculative Fiction portal". Europa SF. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  6. ↑ "Par INDEXO - Licencēta ieguldījumu pārvaldes sabiedrība" (in Latvian). 2017-05-22. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  7. ↑ Forbes Baltics. "40 under 40."
  8. 1 2 Tom Crosshill. "About Tom."
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  13. ↑ "Volume 26 – 2010 – Winners – Writers & Illustrators of the Future". Writers and Illustrators of the Future. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  14. ↑ "INTERVIEW WITH THE MAN BEHIND THE CAT KING OF HAVANA, TOM CROSSHILL!". Flash Fiction Online. 1 September 2016. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  15. ↑ "Latvian Literature Newsletter January 2017". us15.campaign-archive.com. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
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  17. ↑ Crosshill, Tom (19 April 2011). "Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  18. ↑ Crosshill, Tom (2012). "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes by Tom Crosshill". Clarke's World. 67 (April). Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  19. ↑ Crosshill, Tom (2014). "The Magician and Laplace's Demon by Tom Crosshill". Clarke's World. 99 (December). Retrieved 10 May 2022.
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