Brooke Bolander is an American author of

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Biography

Bolander attended the

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_labe ...

, studying History and Archaeology, and is a graduate of the 2011

Clarion Workshop Clarion is a six-week workshop for aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers. Originally an outgrowth of Damon Knight's and Kate Wilhelm's Milford Writers' Conference, held at their home in Milford, Pennsylvania, United States, it was founded i ...

Literary career

Bolander's work, including both short fiction and essays, has been published in venues such as ''Lightspeed'', ''

Uncanny Magazine ''Uncanny Magazine'' is an American science fiction and fantasy online magazine, edited and published by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, based in Urbana, Illinois. Its mascot is a space unicorn. The editors-in-chief, who originally ...

'', and ''

Strange Horizons ''Strange Horizons'' is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry and nonfiction in every issue, including reviews, essays, interviews, and roundtables. History and profile It was launched in September 2000, and ...

''. Her novelette, "And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" was a finalist for the 2016

Hugo Award for Best Novelette The Hugo Award for Best Novelette is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novelette award is available for works of fiction of ...

, the 2015

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, and the 2016

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, and was included in ''The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016.'' Her short story "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies" was a finalist for the 2016

Nebula Award for Best Short Story The Nebula Award for Best Short Story is a literary award assigned each year by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy short stories. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a short stor ...

and the

Hugo Award for Best Short Story The Hugo Award for Best Short Story is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The short story award is available for works of fiction o ...

. Her novelette, " The Only Harmless Great Thing" won the 2018

and the 2019

, and was a finalist for the 2019

Bibliography

Fiction

*"Trickster Blues" (2008) *"Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring" (2012) *"Tornado's Siren" (2012) *"Sun Dogs" (2012) *"The Beasts of the Earth, the Madness of Men" (2013) *"Darlings" (2014) *"The Legend of RoboNinja" (2014) nly as by RoboNinja*"Mechanical Animals" (2014) *"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" (2015) *"Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies" (2016) *"The Last of the Minotaur Wives" (2017) *'' The Only Harmless Great Thing'' (2018) *" The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat" (2018) *"No Flight Without the Shatter" (2018)

Nonfiction

*"Breaching the Gap" (2014) *"Introduction" (Genius Loci) (2016) *"The Uncanny Dinosaurs—Introduction" (2018)

Awards and nominations

"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" was a finalist for the 2016

, the 2015

, the 2016

, and the 2016 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies" was a finalist for the 2016

and the

. It was also nominated for a

World Fantasy Award The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy literature, fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention, the awards are given each year a ...

in 2017 for Best Short Fiction. ''The Only Harmless Great Thing'' won the 2018

and the 2019

, and is a finalist for the 2019

, the 2019

World Fantasy Award for Best Novella In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...

, the

Shirley Jackson Award The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic are presented ...

, and the

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to the author of the best short science fiction story ...

. "The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat" was a finalist for the 2019

References

External links

*
Brooke Bolander
at the

Internet Speculative Fiction Database The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a database of bibliographic information on genres considered speculative fiction, including science fiction and related genres such as fantasy, alternate history, and horror fiction. The ISFDB ...

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