Patrick James Nielsen Hayden (born Patrick James Hayden January 2, 1959), is an American science fiction editor, fan,

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publisher, essayist,

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, teacher and blogger. He is a

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and

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winner (with nine nominations for the latter award), and is an editor and the Manager of Science Fiction at

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Life & Career

Born in

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, he was first active in

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while living in Toronto in the early 1970s. He continued in

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, before moving to the New York area in the 1980s to work professionally in publishing. After moving to New York, he worked at

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as an editorial assistant, then at

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as an associate editor. He changed his last name to "Nielsen Hayden" on his marriage to Teresa Nielsen (now

Teresa Nielsen Hayden Teresa Nielsen Hayden (born March 21, 1956) is an American science fiction editor, fanzine writer, essayist, and workshop instructor. She is a consulting editor for Tor Books and is well known for her weblog, ''Making Light''. She has also work ...

) in 1979. He joined

in the mid-1980s as an assistant and has worked there ever since. Nielsen Hayden is also a writer, teacher, and musician. He plays guitar and sings on occasion for the New York rock band Whisperado. He currently lives in

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, New York.PNH website
/ref> He has published a number of essays and reviews. He has contributed to a number of books and magazines, including ''

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'' (2nd edition, 1993) and '' The Map: Rediscovering Rock and Roll''. He is one of the regular instructors at Viable Paradise, a science fiction

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held on

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, and has also taught at both U.S.

Clarion Workshop Clarion is a six-week workshop for aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers. Originally an outgrowth of Damon Knight's and Kate Wilhelm's Milford Writers' Conference, held at their home in Milford, Pennsylvania, United States, it was founded i ...

s. He used to be active on the

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groups rec.arts.sf.* in the 1990s. Since July 2000 he wrote a blog, ''Electrolite'', until it was incorporated into his wife's blog ''Making Light'' in May 2005, where he now writes along with her, SF writer

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, and SF fans Avram Grumer and Abi Sutherland.

Hugo awards and nominations

* 2013, 2010, and 2007 winner for Hugo Award for Best Editor Long Form, also nominated in this category 2008–2009; also 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 nominee for

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* 1989 co-nominee for

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for ''

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'' * 1986, 1987 nominee for

Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer The Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer is the Hugo Award given each year for writers of works related to science fiction or fantasy which appeared in low- or non-paying publications such as semiprozines or fanzines or in generally available electroni ...

* 1984 co-nominee, with Teresa Nielsen Hayden, for

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for ''Izzard''

Fanzine editor, small press publisher and magazine editor

From 1982 to 1987, he edited and published the

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'' Izzard'' with his wife

. He has worked on a number of other fanzines over the years, including '' Twibbet'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Ecce Fanno'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Through their small press, Ansatz Press, Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden published

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's ''Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions'' From 1985 to 1989, he served on the editorial board of ''

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'', a poetry magazine. Excerpt including relevant biographical information at In 1988, he was one of the founding editors of ''

'', for which he did the basic design, in use until 2012. He left the magazine after several issues.

Anthologies

* ''Alternate Skiffy'' (Wildside Press, 1997) with

Mike Resnick Michael Diamond Resnick (; March 5, 1942 – January 9, 2020) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He won five Hugo awards and a Nebula award, and was the guest of honor at Chicon 7. He was the executive editor of the defunct ...

()PNH bibliography
at ISFDB * ''New Skies'' (Tor, 2003) * ''New Magics: An Anthology of Today's Fantasy'' (Tor, 2004) * ''The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens: First Annual Collection'' (Tor, 2005) with

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* ''Twenty-First Century Science Fiction'', with

David G. Hartwell David Geddes Hartwell (July 10, 1941 – January 20, 2016) was an American critic, publisher, and editor of thousands of science fiction and fantasy novels. He was best known for work with Signet, Pocket, and Tor Books publishers. He was also no ...

(Tor Books, 2013)

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original science fiction & fantasy anthology series: * ''Starlight 1'' (Tor, 1996) – won a

* ''Starlight 2'' (Tor, 1998) * ''Starlight 3'' (Tor, 2001) ''Short Fiction'' * "Binding" in ''Aladdin: Master of the Lamp'', 1992, ed.

Martin H. Greenberg Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 – June 25, 2011) was an American academic and anthologist in many genres, including mysteries and horror, but especially in speculative fiction. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned ov ...

* "Sincerity" in ''More Whatdunits'', 1993, ed. Mike Resnick * "Return" in ''Xanadu'', 1993, ed. Jane Yolen (also available online).

References

External links

*
Spring 2001 Interview
by

Darrell Schweitzer Darrell Charles Schweitzer (born August 27, 1952) is an American writer, editor, and critic in the field of speculative fiction. Much of his focus has been on dark fantasy and horror fiction, horror, although he does also work in science fictio ...

Interview from 2004/7

PNH's Usenet posts
from 1992 to 2002 in

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