Selina Rosen (born February 2, 1960) is a

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science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...

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, editor, and author. In 1995 she founded her own

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, Yard Dog Press, specializing in the adventure,

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and d ...

, and science fiction genres. She is the 2011 recipient of the

Phoenix Award The Phoenix Award annually recognizes one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not then win a major literary award. It is named for the mythical bird phoenix that is reborn from its own ashes, signifying the ...

, a lifetime achievement award for a science fiction professional, presented by the Southern Fandom Confederation. Rosen's published works include fantasy ''Jabone's Sword'' and ''Sword Masters''; dark fantasy/horror ''The Boat Man'', ''Fright Eater'', ''Gang Approval'', ''The Host'' and ''Material Things''; humorous ''The Bubba Chronicles'', ''The Ghost Writer'', ''How I Spent the Apocalypse'', ''Queen of Denial'', and ''Recycled''; science fiction ''Chains of Freedom'', ''Chains of Destruction'', and ''Chains of Redemption'', plus ''Fire & Ice'', ''Hammer Town'', ''Reruns'', ''Strange Robby'', and (with Laura J. Underwood) ''Bad City'' and ''Bad Lands''. They also include the non-fiction ''It's Not Rocket Science: Spirituality for the Working-Class Soul''.

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Yard Dog Press website
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