Mari Ness (born ) is an American poet, author, and critic. She has multiple publications in various
science fiction
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and
fantasy
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magazines and anthologies.
Her work has been published in ''
Apex Magazine
''Apex Magazine'', also previously known as ''Apex Digest'', is an American horror and science fiction magazine. This subscription webzine, ''Apex Magazine'', contains short fiction, reviews, and interviews. It has been nominated for several awa ...
'',
''
Clarkesworld'', ''
Daily Science Fiction
''Daily Science Fiction'' is an email and online magazine devoted to publishing science fiction stories that was founded in 2010. Per the title, it is a daily publication, publishing each weekday, edited by Jonathan Laden and Michele Barasso.
O ...
'',
''
Fantasy Magazine
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'',
''Fireside Magazine'',
''Lightspeed'',
''
Nightmare Magazine
John Joseph Adams (born 1976) is an American science fiction and fantasy editor, critic, and publisher.
Career Editor
Adams worked as Assistant Editor at ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' from May 2001 to December 2009. In January 20 ...
'', ''
Strange Horizons'',
''
Tor.com'',
and ''
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 ...
''.
In
''Locus'', Paula Guran said of ''The Girl and the House'' that Ness: "subverts and glorifies the clichés and tropes of every gothic novel ever written, in less than 1,800 words"
Career
Ness has been a panelist and guest at a number of
science fiction conventions, most notably
Worldcon
Worldcon, or more formally the World Science Fiction Convention, the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), is a science fiction convention. It has been held each year since 1939 (except for the years 1942 to 1945, during ...
2019 in
Dublin
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. One reviewer of the Worldcon panel where she participated, "The golden age of animated SF," commented that the members of the panel "meandered and didn’t really answer the question it posed, digressing into questions such as ‘what is genre?’ and ‘what is animation?’ before getting to some light discussion of the eponymous topic in the last 15 minutes." She has also appeared at
OASIS 2019 in
Orlando, Florida
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, and was scheduled to appear at CoNZealand 2020 in
Wellington, New Zealand.
Ness is also noted for her critical reassessment of classic literary works.
Among other analysis, she critiques the presence or lack of an appropriate disability narrative in works where characters have obvious disabilities.
Her column on ''
Tor.com'', "Disney Read-Watch," which discussed
Disney
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animated films and the classic tales that underlaid them, was a finalist for one of
Reddit
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's 2016 "Stabby" Awards, given by the r/Fantasy subreddit for works related to the genre.
Her work has appeared in several anthologies, some of which have been reviewed in ''
Publishers Weekly
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''. Her novelette, "The Ceremony", published in ''
Fireside Quarterly'' in 2018, was on
''Locus''s recommended reading list in 2018.
Her fiction that appeared in ''Lightspeed'' was noted favorably by ''Locus'' in 2017.
Personal life
She lives in central
Florida
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, though she has lived in upstate
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
previously. Ness is a wheelchair user due to
postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and
vertigo.
On occasion her experience with these informs her characters and stories and so too does her interests in technology and mythology and how they can resolve or cause issues.
She also uses her position to call out events which are insufficiently accessible for people with disabilities.
Works
;Print anthologies:
* "The heart of the flame" (Poetry, 2016) in Vitale, Valeria, and Djibril al-Ayad. ''Fae Visions of the Mediterranean: An Anthology of Horrors and Wonders of the Sea''.
Futurefire.net Publishing.
* "Memories and wire." (Short Story, 2014) in Clarke, Neil. ''Upgraded'' Stirling, New Jersey:
Wyrm Publishing
Neil Clarke (born 1966) is an American editor and publisher, mainly of science fiction and fantasy stories.
In 2006, Clarke launched ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' as a companion to his online bookstore Clarkesworld Books (2000-2007). He serves as t ...
.
* "And the Hollow Space Inside" (Short Story, 2012) republished in Clarke, Neil, and Sean Wallace, ''Clarkesworld Year Six'' (2014). Stirling, New Jersey:
Wyrm Publishing
Neil Clarke (born 1966) is an American editor and publisher, mainly of science fiction and fantasy stories.
In 2006, Clarke launched ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' as a companion to his online bookstore Clarkesworld Books (2000-2007). He serves as t ...
.
* "Do Not Imagine" (Short story, 2012) in Moreno-Garcia, Silvia, and Paula R. Stiles, ''Future Lovecraft''. Gaithersburg, MD:
Prime Books.
* "Snowmelt" (Poetry, 2011) republished in Gardner, Lyn C. A., et al., ''The 2012 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Poetry of 2011.'' (2012) Covina, CA: Science Fiction Poetry Association.
* "Twittering the Stars" (Short Story, 2010) in De Vries, Jetse, and Jason Andrew, ''Shine: an anthology of near-future, optimistic science fiction.'' Oxford:
Solaris
Solaris may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Literature, television and film
* ''Solaris'' (novel), a 1961 science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem
** ''Solaris'' (1968 film), directed by Boris Nirenburg
** ''Solaris'' (1972 film), directed by ...
.
;Novellas
*''In the Greenwood: a tor.com original.'' (2014) New York: Tor.
;Collections
*''Through Immortal Shadows Singing'' (lyric poetry, 2017) West Yorkshire, UK:
Papaveria Press
Papaveria Press is an independent British publishing house based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. It specializes in special, limited handbound editions and paperbacks in the fields of fairy tale, myth and poetry.
History
Papaveria Press was found ...
*''Tongues of Fire'' (Short stories, 2002) Shadowwater Press
;Short Fiction
*''Letter to an Overly Ambitious Alien Chef of the Future'' (2005)
*''Kittensplodge and the Awful Correspondence'' (2006)
*''Assistant'' (2007)
*''End of Time'' (2007)
*''The Shadow in the Mirror'' (2008)
*''Wooden Apologies'' (2009)
*''Playing with Spades'' (2009)
*''Rumpled Skin'' (2009)
*''Ravens'' (2010)
*''Sparks'' (2010)
*''Mademoiselle and the Chevalier'' (2010)
*''In the Pits of Isfhan'' (2011)
*''Dreams of Elephants and Ice'' (2011)
*''Sister and Bones'' (2011)
*''Love in the Absence of Mosquitoes'' (2011)
*''Green'' (2011)
*''Trickster'' (2011)
*''Twelve Days of Dragons'' (2011)
*''Copper, Iron, Blood and Love'' (2012)
*''A Different Rain'' (2012)
*''Nameless'' (2012)
*''The Agreement'' (2012)
*''A Cellar of Terrible Things'' (2012)
*''Shattered Amber'' (2012)
*''Labyrinth'' (2012)
*''Safe'' (2012)
*''Marmalette'' (2013)
*''Palatina'' (2013)
*''The Godmother'' (2013)
*''The Princess and Her Tale'' (2013)
*''Stronger Than the Wind, Stronger Than the Sea'' (2013)
*''Seaweed'' (2013)
*''The Gifts: Part One'' (2013)
*''The Gifts: Part Two'' (2013)
*''The Gifts: Part Three'' (2013)
*''An Assault of Color'' (2013)
*''In the Greenwood'' (2013)
*''The Dragon and the Bond'' (2013)
*''Ink'' (2014)
*''Toads'' (2014)
*''Undone'' (2014)
*''Coffin'' (2014)
*''Death and Death Again'' (2014)
*''Beans and Lies'' (2014)
*''The Knot'' (2015)
*''The Fox Bride'' (2015)
*''Inhabiting Your Skin'' (2015)
*''The Dollmaker's Rage'' (2015)
*''Sometimes Heron'' (2015)
*''The Petals'' (2015)
*''Sea Dreams'' (2015)
*''The Forge'' (2015)
*''The Huntsmen'' (2016)
*''Cat Play'' (2016)
*''The Game'' (2016)
*''My Own Damn Heaven'' (2016)
*''Deathlight'' (2016)
*''Mistletoe and Copper, Water and Herbs'' (2016)
*''The Middle Child's Practical Guide to Surviving a Fairy Tale'' (2016)
*''Coffee, Love and Leaves'' (2016)
*''Dragonbone'' (2016)
*''Nine Songs'' (2016)
*''The Cat Signal'' (2016)
*''Souls'' (2016)
*''Hundreds'' (2016)
*''The Lion'' (2017)
*''We Need to Talk About the Unicorn in Your Back Yard'' (2017)
*''The Witch in the Tower'' (2017)
*''Stealing Tales'' (2017)
*''Gingerbread Smoke'' (2017)
*''You Will Never Know What Opens'' (2017)
*''Pipers Piping'' (2017)
*''Purchases'' (2018)
*''Shadows and Bells'' (2018)
*''The Sword'' (2018)
*''Memories of Monsters'' (2018)
*''The Ceremony'' (2018)
*''Mercy'' (2018)
*''Feather Ties'' (2019)
*''The Girl and the House'' (2019)
*''The Wolf'' (2019)
*''Transformation, Afterwards'' (2019)
;Poetry
*''Waiting'' (2008)
*''Ino'' (2009)
*''Dancing'' (2010)
*''Sleep'' (2010)
*''Quoth the Cultist'' (2010)
*''Grandma and the Puka'' (2011)
*''Nile Song'' (2011)
*''Soul Streets'' (2011)
*''Encantada'' (2011)
*''Raven Singing'' (2011)
*''Silence'' (2011)
*''Petals'' (2011)
*''Frenzy'' (2011)
*''Cold Comfort'' (2011)
*''Do Not Imagine'' (2011)
*''Tongueless'' (2012)
*''Laurels'' (2012)
*''Moondance'' (2012)
*''Sisters'' (2012)
*''Gleaming'' (2013)
*''Walking Home'' (2013)
*''The Loss'' (2013)
*''Feather'' (2014)
*''The Restoration of Youth'' (2014)
*''Bone Song'' (2014)
*''Nausicca's Mother Explains It All'' (2014)
*''The Silver Comb'' (2014)
*''Demands'' (2014)
*''After the Dance'' (2015)
*''The Thirteenth Child'' (2015)
*''After Midnight'' (2016)
*''Ice'' (2016)
*''The Study'' (2017)
*''O Ippos'' (2017)
*''Through Immortal Shadows Singing'' (2017)
*''Hunter'' (2017)
*''Expecting a Dinosaur'' (2018)
References
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Living people
21st-century American women writers
1970s births
21st-century American poets
American women poets