Kameron Hurley is an American

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writer.

Biography

Hurley was born in

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and has lived in

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, and

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. She currently resides in

Dayton, Ohio Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2020 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 137,644, while Greater Day ...

. Hurley has been publishing short fiction since 1998 and novels since 2011. From 2013 to 2021 Hurley wrote regular columns for ''

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'' magazine about the craft and business of fiction writing and has published non-fiction pieces in ''

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'',

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 ...

, ''

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 ...

'', ''

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'', ''Female First'', ''

Writer's Digest ''Writer's Digest'' is an American magazine aimed at beginning and established writers. It contains interviews, market listings, calls for manuscripts, and how-to articles. History ''Writer's Digest'' was first published in December 1920 under ...

'', and ''

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''. Hurley is a graduate of

Clarion West Clarion West Writers Workshop is an intensive six-week program for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy. It runs annually from late June through the end of July. The workshop is limited to 18 students per year. ...

. Her first novel trilogy, the ''Bel Dame Apocrypha'', is what Hurley called "bugpunk": set on a far-future desert planet whose technology is based on insects and whose matriarchal, Islam-inspired cultures are locked in perpetual war. Her second trilogy, the ''Worldbreaker Saga'', is

grimdark Grimdark is a subgenre of speculative fiction with a tone, style, or setting that is particularly dystopian, amoral, and violent. The term is inspired by the tagline of the tabletop strategy game ''Warhammer 40,000'': "In the grim darkness of ...

epic fantasy High fantasy, or epic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy defined by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot.Brian Stableford, ''The A to Z of Fantasy Literature'', (p. 198), Scarecrow Press, Pl ...

that aims to subvert the genre's tropes such as the

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. She has also published a standalone

space opera Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and chivalric romance. Set mainly or entirely in outer space, it features technological and soci ...

novel, ''The Stars are Legion'', in 2017, and the

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novel, ''The Light Brigade'', in 2019. Her first nonfiction book, the essay collection '' The Geek Feminist Revolution'', was published in 2016.

Awards and nominations

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's cover art for Hurley's novel ''God’s War'' (part of the ''Bel Dame Apocrypha'' series) was nominated for the

Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration – Paperback The Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration - Paperback is given by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA) to recognize achievements in the illustration of science fiction & fantasy paperback book A paperback (softcove ...

and won Gold in the 2011

Spectrum Award The Spectrum Awards were established in 1994 by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner to recognize the best in fantasy, science fiction, and horror artwork created each year. Spectrum Award categories * Spectrum Award for Grand Master, Grand Master * Spect ...

- Books.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''The Stars Are Legion'' -

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, 2017 * ''The Light Brigade'' -

, 2019

''The Bel Dame Apocrypha''

# ''God’s War'' -

Night Shade Books Night Shade Books is an American, San Francisco–based imprint, formerly an independent publishing company, that specializes in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Among its publications have been the U.S. edition of Iain M. Banks' novel '' ...

, 2011 # ''Infidel'' -

, 2011 # ''Rapture'' -

, 2012

''Worldbreaker Saga''

# ''The Mirror Empire'' -

Angry Robot Angry Robot is a British-based publishing house dedicated to producing modern adult science fiction and fantasy, or as they call it “SF, F and WTF?!?”. The Nottingham-based company first released books in the UK in 2009, and since September 2 ...

, 2014 # ''Empire Ascendant'' -

, 2015 #''The Broken Heavens'' -

, 2020

Short fiction

Collections

* ''Brutal Women: Short Stories -'' 2010 * ''Apocalypse Nyx'' -

Tachyon Publications Tachyon Publications is an independent press specializing in science fiction and fantasy books. Founded in San Francisco in 1995 by Jacob Weisman, Tachyon books have tended toward high-end literary works, short story collections, and anthologies ...

, 2018 (''The Bel Dame Apocrypha'') * ''Meet Me in the Future: Stories'' -

, 2019 * ''Future Artifacts'' - Apex Books, 2022

Stories

Nonfiction

* "Locus Commentary" series, ''

'', Locus Publications, 2013-2018 * "On the Business of Writing, Creativity, and Burnout", ''Journey Planet'', issue #15, ed. James Bacon, Christopher J. Garcia, and Lynda E. Rucker, 2013 * * "We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slave Narrative", ''Lightspeed'', issue 49, ed. Christie Yant,

Lightspeed Magazine ''Lightspeed'' is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine edited and published by John Joseph Adams. The first issue was published in June 2010 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since. The magazine currently publis ...

, 2014 * "Language and Imaginative Resistance in Epic Fantasy", ''Fantasy Magazine'', issue 58, ed.

Cat Rambo Cat Rambo (born November 14, 1963) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor. Rambo uses they/them pronouns. Rambo was co-editor of ''Fantasy Magazine (2005), Fantasy Magazine'' from 2007 to 2011, which earned them a 2012 Wor ...

, Fantasy Magazine, 2014 * "I Don't Care About Your MFA: On Writing vs. Storytelling", ''Uncanny Magazine'', issue 4, ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas,

, 2015 * "Creating Better Fantasy Economies", ''Fantasy-Faction Anthology'' ed. Marc Aplin and Jennie Ivins, Fantasy-Faction, 2015 * '' The Geek Feminist Revolution'',

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 scien ...

, 2016 * "The Sad Economics of Writing Short Fiction", ''

'', ed. Liza Groen Trombi, Locus Publications, 2016 * "Why I'm Not Afraid of the Internet", ''

Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show ''Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show'' (2008) is a science fiction and fantasy anthology edited by Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card. Originally published in paperback by Tor Books in August 2008, it contains eighteen stories ...

'', issue #51, ed. Edmund R. Schubert, Hatrack River Enterprises, 2016 * "Fear, Procrastination, and the Thorny Problem of Demanding What You're Worth", ''

'', ed. Liza Groen Trombi, Locus Publications, 2017 * "On Patience, Goal-setting, and Gardening", ''

'', ed. Liza Groen Trombi, Locus Publications, 2018 * "An Introduction: Meet Me in the Future", ''Meet Me in the Future'' by Kameron Hurley,

, 2019 * "It's Okay if This Email Finds You Well", ''

'', ed. Liza Groen Trombi, Locus Publications, 2020

References

External links

Kameron Hurley's Official Website

People Don’t Buy Books They Don’t Know About (Even Great Ones)
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