Ken Scholes (born January 13, 1968) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer living in
Cornelius, Oregon
Cornelius is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Located in the Portland metropolitan area, the city's population was 11,869 at the 2010 census. The city lies along Tualatin Valley Highway between Forest Grove to the west and ...
, United States.
He is the author of five novels and over fifty short stories and his work has appeared in print since 2000. His series, ''
The Psalms of Isaak'', is published by Tor Books and his short fiction has been collected in three volumes published by Fairwood Press.
Ken is a winner of the Writers of the Future Award, France's Prix Imaginales, the Endeavour Award and others. His work has been published internationally in eight languages.
His first novel, ''Lamentation'', was based on a previous short story entitled "Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing with the Sunrise",
Nothing to Lament About
Publishers Weekly, December 2008 and is the first of five in the ''Psalms of Isaak'' saga.
Biography
Ken's eclectic background includes time spent as a label gun repairman, a sailor who never sailed, a soldier who commanded a desk, a preacher, a nonprofit executive and a government procurement analyst. He has a degree in History from Western Washington University. His nickname is Trailer Boy in homage to his childhood home on the outskirts of a small logging town in Washington State. Ken is a public advocate for people living with C-PTSD and speaks openly about his experiences with it. Ken is also a performing musician, presenter and occasional creative consultant. Ken is a native of the Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest (sometimes Cascadia, or simply abbreviated as PNW) is a geographic region in western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east. Tho ...
and makes his home in Cornelius, Oregon
Cornelius is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Located in the Portland metropolitan area, the city's population was 11,869 at the 2010 census. The city lies along Tualatin Valley Highway between Forest Grove to the west and ...
, where he lives with his twin daughters.
Books
Magic fantasy series
The Psalms of Isaak series:
# ''Lamentation'', Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles, and is the largest publisher of Chinese sci ...
, February 2009
# ''Canticle'', Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles, and is the largest publisher of Chinese sci ...
, October 2009
# ''Antiphon'', Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles, and is the largest publisher of Chinese sci ...
, September 2010
# ''Requiem'', Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles, and is the largest publisher of Chinese sci ...
, June 2013
# ''Hymn'', Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles, and is the largest publisher of Chinese sci ...
, December 2017
Story Collections
*''Long Walks, Last Flights, and Other Strange Journeys'', Fairwood Press
Fairwood Press is an American small-press publishing company, specializing in speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. It was founded by Patrick and Honna Swenson and is currently located in Kent, Washington.
The company has published work ...
, 2008
*''Diving Mimes, Weeping Czars and Other Unusual Suspects'', Fairwood Press
Fairwood Press is an American small-press publishing company, specializing in speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. It was founded by Patrick and Honna Swenson and is currently located in Kent, Washington.
The company has published work ...
, 2010
*''Blue Yonders, Grateful Pies and Other Fanciful Feasts, '' Fairwood Press
Fairwood Press is an American small-press publishing company, specializing in speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. It was founded by Patrick and Honna Swenson and is currently located in Kent, Washington.
The company has published work ...
, 2015
Other books
* ''Last Flight of the Goddess'', Fairwood Press
Fairwood Press is an American small-press publishing company, specializing in speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. It was founded by Patrick and Honna Swenson and is currently located in Kent, Washington.
The company has published work ...
, 2006
* ''Metatropolis
''METAtropolis'' is a series of science fiction audiobook collections.
In 2008, Audible.com released the audiobook anthology ''METAtropolis'', edited by John Scalzi and featuring short fiction in a shared world created by Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear ...
: The Wings We Dare Aspire'', co-authored with Jay Lake
Joseph Edward "Jay" Lake, Jr. (June 6, 1964 – June 1, 2014) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first-place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for B ...
, WordFire Press, 2014
Short fiction
* "The Taking Night", Talebones, Winter 2000
* "So Sang the Girl Who Had No Name", Twilight Showcase, 2001 and Fortean Bureau, December 2004
* "Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk", Talebones, Spring 2001 and Best of the Rest 3: Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2001, ed. Brian Youmans, Suddenly Press, 2002 and Revolution SF, July 2006 and Escape Pod, February 2008
* "Fearsome Jones' Discarded Love Collection", Fortean Bureau, July 2004
* "A Good Hair Day in Anarchy", Lone Star Stories, June 2005 and Best of the Rest 4: Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2005, ed. Brian Youmans, Suddenly Press, 2006
* "Into the Blank Where Life is Hurled", L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXI, ed. Algis Budrys, Galaxy Press, 2005
* "The Santaman Cycle", TEL:Stories, ed. Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2005
* "On the Settling of Ancient Scores", Son and Foe, November 2005
* "The Man With Great Despair Behind His Eyes", Talebones, Winter 2005 and Prime Codex, ed. Lawrence M. Schoen and Michael Livingston, Paper Golem, 2007
* "That When I Waked I Cried to Dream Again", Insidious Reflections, January 2006
* "Action Team-Ups Number Thirty-Seven", Shimmer Magazine, Winter 2006
* "East of Eden and Just a Bit South", Aeon Speculative Fiction, February 2006
* "There Once Was a Girl From Nantucket (A Fortean Love Story)" (with John A. Pitts), Fortean Bureau, March 2006
* "Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing with the Sunrise", Realms of Fantasy, August 2006 and Best New Fantasy 2, ed. Sean Wallace, Prime Books
Sean Wallace (born January 1, 1976) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologist, editor, and publisher best known for founding the publishing house Prime Books and for co-editing three magazines, '' Clarkesworld Magazine'', '' ...
* "That Old-Time Religion", Weird Tales
''Weird Tales'' is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. The first editor, Edwin Baird, pri ...
, November 2007
* "Soon We Shall All Be Saunders", Polyphony 6, ed. Deborah Layne and Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2006
* "One Small Step", Aeon Speculative Fiction, Issue 9, November 2006
* "The Great Little Falls Revival", Science Fiction Trails, Pirate Dog Press, ed. David P. Riley, 2007
* "Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky", Clarkesworld Magazine
''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (ISSN 1937-7843) is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It released its first issue October 1, 2006 and has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Elizabe ...
, November 2007
* What Child Is This, I Ask the Midnight Clear", Shimmer Magazine Holiday Chapbook, Winter 2007
* "The Doom of Love in Small Spaces", Realms of Fantasy
''Realms of Fantasy'' was a professional bimonthly fantasy speculative fiction magazine published by Sovereign Media, then Tir Na Nog Press, and Damnation Books, which specialized in fantasy fiction (including some horror), related nonfiction (wit ...
, April 2008
* "The God-Voices of Settler's Rest", Intergalactic Medicine Show
''InterGalactic Medicine Show'' (sometimes shortened to ''IGMS'') was an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It was founded in 2005 by multiple award-winning author Orson Scott Card and was edited by Edmund R. Schubert from 20 ...
, July 2008
* "The Night the Stars Sang Out My Name", Abyss and Apex, Third Quarter 2008.
* "Invisible Empire of Ascending Light", Eclipse 2, Nightshade Books, ed. Jonathan Strahen,2008
* "The Second Gift Given", Clarkesworld Magazine
''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (ISSN 1937-7843) is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It released its first issue October 1, 2006 and has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Elizabe ...
, February 2009
* "A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon", tor.com
''Tor.com'' is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine published by Tor Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers. The magazine publishes articles, reviews, original short fiction, re-reads and commentary on speculative fiction.
From 20 ...
, February 2009
* "Love in the Time of Car Alarms", The Trouble with Heroes, ed. Denise Little, DAW Books, November 2009
* "In Time of Despair and Darkness", Realms of Fantasy
''Realms of Fantasy'' was a professional bimonthly fantasy speculative fiction magazine published by Sovereign Media, then Tir Na Nog Press, and Damnation Books, which specialized in fantasy fiction (including some horror), related nonfiction (wit ...
, December 2009
* "The Starship Mechanic" (with Jay Lake
Joseph Edward "Jay" Lake, Jr. (June 6, 1964 – June 1, 2014) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first-place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for B ...
), tor.com
''Tor.com'' is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine published by Tor Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers. The magazine publishes articles, reviews, original short fiction, re-reads and commentary on speculative fiction.
From 20 ...
, January 2010
* "A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves", Metatropolis: Cascadia, Audible Frontiers, ed. John Scalzi, November 2010
* "Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair", tor.com
''Tor.com'' is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine published by Tor Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers. The magazine publishes articles, reviews, original short fiction, re-reads and commentary on speculative fiction.
From 20 ...
, January 2011
* "If Dragon's Mass Eve Be Cold and Clear", tor.com
''Tor.com'' is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine published by Tor Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers. The magazine publishes articles, reviews, original short fiction, re-reads and commentary on speculative fiction.
From 20 ...
, December 2011
Notes and references
External links
Official website
*
, Pat's Fantasy Hotlist, January 2009
Trailer Boy Makes Good: An Interview With Ken Scholes, Author of Canticle
by Spencer Ellsworth, September 2009
Keeping Ahead of the Fear: An Interview with Ken Scholes
by Jeremy L. C. Jones, Clarkesworld Magazine
''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (ISSN 1937-7843) is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It released its first issue October 1, 2006 and has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Elizabe ...
, October 2009
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1968 births
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American fantasy writers
American male novelists
American science fiction writers
Novelists from Oregon
People from St. Helens, Oregon
American male short story writers
21st-century American short story writers
21st-century American male writers