Naomi Kritzer is an American
speculative fiction writer and blogger.
Her 2015 short story "
Cat Pictures Please" was a
Locus Award
The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine ''Locus'', a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California. The awards are presented at an annual banquet. In addition to the pl ...
and
Hugo Award winner and was nominated for a
Nebula Award. Her novel, ''Catfishing on CatNet'' won the 2020
Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
The Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book is an award given annually to a book published for young adult readers in the field of science fiction or fantasy. The name of the award was chosen because a lodestar is "a star that guides or leads, ...
.
Biography
Kritzer has lived in
London
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and
Nepal
Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne,
सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...
. She attended Wingra School - Madison, WI (1978 - 1986);
Highgate Wood School - Haringey, England (1986 - 1987); Madison West High School - Madison, WI (1987 - 1991); and
Carleton College - Northfield, MN (1991 - 1995). As of 2020, she lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and blogs on local elections.
Career
Since 1999 Kritzer has published a number of short stories and several novels, including two trilogies for
Bantam Books, and her Seastead series of short stories for
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher ...
. Her 2015 short story "
Cat Pictures Please" published in ''
Clarkesworld
''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 Elizabet ...
'' was a Locus Award and Hugo Award winner and was nominated for a Nebula Award.
Bibliography
Novel series
Eliana's Song
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** "Kin" (2004)
Dead Rivers
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CatNet
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Collections
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Short fiction
* "The Price" (2000)
* "Spirit Stone" (2000)
* "The Golem" (2000)
* "Comrade Grandmother" (2002)
* "In the Witch's Garden" (2002)
* "St. Ailbe's Hall" (2004) also appeared as:
* "The Long Walk" (2005) with Lyda Morehouse
* "Honest Man" (2007)
* "When Shlemiel Went to the Stars" (2008)
* "The Good Son" (2009)
* "Isabella's Garden" (2011)
* "What Happened at Blessing Creek" (2011)
* "Scrap Dragon" (2012)
* "Bits" (2013)
* "
Cat Pictures Please" (2015)
* "Wind" (2015)
* "Cleanout" (2015)
* "So Much Cooking" (2015)
* "Zombies in Winter" (2016)
* "Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty’s Place Cafe" (2017)
Awards
References
External links
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Living people
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American short story writers
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American short story writers
21st-century American women writers
American fantasy writers
American science fiction writers
American women short story writers
Analog Science Fiction and Fact people
Asimov's Science Fiction people
Hugo Award-winning writers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Novelists from North Carolina