Elyse Guttenberg (born August 9, 1952) is an Alaskan writer known primarily for her fantasy novels.

Biography

Elyse Guttenberg was born in New York City and grew up in Astoria, and

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. In 1972, she followed her two brothers, Richard and

David Guttenberg David Guttenberg (born May 26, 1951) is an American politician serving as a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives The Alaska State Hous ...

north to attend the

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where she received a bachelor's degree in anthropology (1977) and a MAT in English (1979). At UAF Guttenberg was one of the founding editors of ''Permafrost'', the nation's farthest north literary journal. Guttenberg served for many years as a member of the Alaska State Council on the Arts Literature Review Panel, and the

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Library Commission.

Personal life

She married Luke Hopkins (born ca. 1945) in 1977 and has two grown children, Selena Hopkins-Kendall and Grier Hopkins. Luke Hopkins was the mayor of the Fairbanks North Star Borough until 2015, having been elected to the post in 2009 following his retirement from a career working at UAF. Grier Hopkins is an Alaska State Legislator.

Awards

Guttenberg is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, as well as an Artist's Initiative grant to publish "Inroads: An Anthology Celebrating Alaska's Twenty-Seven Fellowship Writers". Her novel "Sunder, Eclipse and Seed," received honorable mention for the William L. Crawford Award for the year's best new fantasy from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

Works

* ''Inroads: An Anthology Celebrating Alaska's Twenty-Seven Fellowship Writers'', 1988, edited with Jean Anderson * ''Sunder, Eclipse and Seed'', Roc, 1990 * ''Summer Light'', HarperCollins, 1995 * ''Daughter of the Shaman'', HarperCollins, 1997

Shorter works

* "Selena's Song," in ''Spaceships and Spells'', edited by

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, Martin Greenberg, & Charles Waugh. Harper and Row, 1987 * "Plane Story," in ''The Women's Press Book of Myth and Magic'', edited by Helen Windrath,

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, 1993 * "Rules for Winter," (poetry) About Place Journal, Vol.II, Issue I
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Anthologies

* "The Faces of Fantasy: Photographs by Patti Perret," intro. by Terri Windling, * SUMMER LIGHT excerpt in "The Last New Land, stories of Alaska Past and Present," edited by Wayne Mergler, forward John Haines,

References

External links

Permafrost

Representative David Guttenberg

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guttenberg, Elyse 1952 births 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers American fantasy writers American women short story writers American women novelists University of Alaska Fairbanks alumni Writers from Fairbanks, Alaska Living people Women science fiction and fantasy writers