Charlie Anders

Charlie Jane Anders is an American writer and commentator. She has written several novels, published magazines and websites, and hosted podcasts. In 2005, she received the Lambda Literary Award for work in the transgender category, and in 2009, the Emperor Norton Award. Her 2011 novelette ''Six Months, Three Days'' won the 2012 Hugo and was a finalist for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. Her 2016 novel '' All the Birds in the Sky'' was listed No. 5 on '' Time'' magazine's "Top 10 Novels" of 2016, won the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2017 Crawford Award, and the 2017 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel; it was also a finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Bio

Anders was born near Storrs, ConnecticutFallon, Claire (June 17, 2019).
Charlie Jane Anders Crosses The Divide
, Huffington Post. Retrieved 4 July 2022. and grew up in nearby Mansfield.Charlie Jane Anders: Whimsy Death Match
, '' Locus'', January 10, 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2022. She studied English and Asian Literature at the University of Cambridge,Cala, Christina (March 19, 2021).
Charlie Jane Anders: How Can Science Fiction Allow Us To Imagine Better Futures?
, NPR. Retrieved 4 July 2022. and studied in China before moving to San Francisco in the early 2000s. Anders co-founded ''Other'' magazine, the "magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts", with Annalee Newitz, and served as publisher during the magazine's run from 2002 to 2007. In 2006, she was a co-founding editor of the science fiction blog '' io9'', a position she left in April 2016 to focus on novel writing.

Career

Anders has had science fiction published in Tor.com, '' Strange Horizons'', and ''Flurb''. Additional (non-science-fiction) literary work has been published in McSweeney's and '' Zyzzyva''. Anders's work has appeared in ''Salon'', '' The Wall Street Journal'', '' Publishers Weekly'', ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'', '' Mother Jones'', and the '' San Francisco Chronicle''. She has had stories and essays in anthologies such as ''Sex For America: Politically Inspired Erotica'', ''The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes'', and ''That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation''.

Her first novel, '' Choir Boy'', appeared in 2005 from Soft Skull Press; a young adult story about a boy transitioning gender in order to sing. In 2014, Tor Books acquired two novels from Anders, '' All the Birds in the Sky'', which appeared in 2016, and ''The City in the Middle of the Night'', appearing in 2019. Tor Teen acquired a young adult trilogy from Anders in 2017; the first novel, ''Victories Greater than Death'', appeared in 2021, and the second, ''Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak,'' in 2022.

In addition to her work as an author and publisher, Anders is also a longtime event organizer. She organized a "ballerina pie fight" in 2005 for ''Other'' magazine; co-organized the Cross-Gender Caravan, a national transgender and genderqueer author tour; and a Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl in San Francisco. She emcees " Writers with Drinks", an award-winning San Francisco-based monthly reading series begun in 2001 that features authors from a wide range of genres and has been noted for its "free-associative author introductions."

She has been a juror for the James Tiptree Jr. Award and for the Lambda Literary Award. She formerly published the satirical website godhatesfigs.com which was featured by the ''Sunday Times'' as website of the week.

A television adaptation of Anders' ''Six Months, Three Days'' was being prepared for NBC in 2013, with the script written by Eric Garcia.

In March 2018, with her partner and co-host Annalee Newitz, Anders launched the podcast ''Our Opinions Are Correct'', which “explor sthe meaning of science fiction, and how it’s relevant to real-life science and society.” The podcast won the Hugo Award for Best Fancast in 2019.

Awards and recognition

Anders participated in the 2018 BookCon conference in New York City. She was Professional Guest of Honor at the 2019 WisCon.

* 2005 Best of the Bay Award for Writers with Drinks.
* 2006 Best of the Bay Award for Writers with Drinks.
* 2006 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction finalist, for ''Choir Boy''.
* 2006 Lambda Literary Award, for ''Choir Boy''.
* 2011 Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Award nominations for ''Six Months, Three Days''.
* 2012 Hugo Award for ''Six Months, Three Days''.
* 2017 Nebula Award for '' All the Birds in the Sky''.
* 2017 IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award for ''All the Birds in the Sky.''
* 2017 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel for ''All the Birds in the Sky.''
* 2018 Theodore Sturgeon Award for ''Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue''.
* 2019 Hugo Award for Best Fancast for ''Our Opinions Are Correct'' (shared with Annalee Newitz).2019 Hugo Awards Announced
, by Cheryl Morgan, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved November 13, 2019
* 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award nomination for ''The City in the Middle of the Night''.
* 2020 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for ''The City in the Middle of the Night''.
* 2020 Locus Award for Best Short Story for "The Bookstore at the End of America".
* 2022 Hugo Award, Best Related Work for ''Never Say You Can’t Survive''.
* 2022 Hugo Award for Best Fancast for ''Our Opinions Are Correct'' (shared with Annalee Newitz).

Bibliography

Novels

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Short story collections

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Short fiction

Non-fiction

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*''Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories''. New York: Tordotcom. 2021. ISBN 9781250800015.

Interviews

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Critical studies and reviews of Anders' work

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External links

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Charlie Jane Anders
at '' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction''

''Other'' magazine

''Our Opinions are Correct'' podcast

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