Will Shetterly (born 1955) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction best known for his novel '' Dogland'' (1997). The novel is inspired by his childhood at the

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Dog Land owned by his parents. He won the

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for Fantasy & Science Fiction for his novel ''Elsewhere'' (1991), and was a finalist with ''Nevernever'' (1993); both books are set in

Terri Windling Terri Windling (born December 3, 1958 in Fort Dix, New Jersey) is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoke ...

The Borderland Series The ''Borderland'' series of urban fantasy novels and stories were created for teenage readers by author Terri Windling. Most of the series is set in Bordertown, a dystopian city near the border between "the Elflands" and "The World". The series ...

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. He has also written short stories for various Borderland

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Biography

Shetterly is married to the author

Emma Bull Emma Bull (born December 13, 1954) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her novels include the Hugo- and Nebula-nominated ''Bone Dance'' and the urban fantasy ''War for the Oaks''. She is also known for a series of anthologies se ...

. The couple lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and were both members of the writing group

The Scribblies The Scribblies were a fantasy fiction group of writers formed in the U.S. city of Minneapolis in January 1980. Members included Nate Bucklin, Emma Bull, Steven Brust, Kara Dalkey, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly and Patricia Wrede.Novel Spaces, http ...

, which also included,

Pamela Dean Pamela Collins Dean Dyer-Bennet (born 1953), better known as Pamela Dean, is an American fantasy author whose best-known book is ''Tam Lin'', based on the Child Ballad of the same name, in which the Scottish fairy story is set on a midwestern ...

Kara Dalkey Kara Mia Dalkey (born 1953) is an American author of young adult fiction and historical fantasy. Personal life She was born in Los Angeles and has lived in Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Colorado, and Seattle. Much of her fiction is set in the He ...

, Nate Bucklin,

Patricia Wrede Patricia Collins Wrede (; born March 27, 1953) is an American author of fantasy literature. She is known for her ''Enchanted Forest Chronicles'' series for young adults, which was voted number 84 in NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels list. Caree ...

, and

Steven Brust Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He is best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a disdained minority group of humans livi ...

. Shetterly and Bull created and edited the

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anthologies. Shetterly created the comic book character Captain Confederacy, played a small role in the film ''Toxic Zombies'', and ran for

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in 1994 on the

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ticket. In 2009, he donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at

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Bibliography

Short stories

* "Bound Things" (''Liavek''.

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, 1985) * "A Happy Birthday" (''Liavek: The Players of Luck''.

, 1986) * "Six Days Outside the Year" (''Liavek: Festival Week''.

, 1990) * "Nevernever" (''Life on the Border'',

, ed.,

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, 1991) * "Time Travel, the Artifact, and a Significant Historical Personage" (''Xanadu'',

Jane Yolen Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She is the author or editor of more than 350 books, of which the best known is '' The Devil's Arithmetic'', a Holocaust novella. H ...

, ed.,

, 1993) * "Danceland" (with Emma Bull) (''Bordertown'', Edited by

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and

, 1996) * "The Princess Who Kicked Butt" (''A Wizard's Dozen'', edited by

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, 1993; *''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'', Seventh Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds.,

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, 1994; ''Cricket'' (Feb 1997)) * "Oldthings" (''Xanadu 2'', edited by

, 1994) * "Brian and the Aliens", (''Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your Mind'', Bruce Coville, ed., Scholastic, 1995) * "Dream Catcher" (''The Armless Maiden'', edited by

, 1995) * "Taken He Cannot Be" (''Peter Beagle's Immortal Unicorn'', edited by Peter S. Beagle and

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, 1995;

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1999 (paperback ed.) * "Secret Identity]" (from ''A Starfarer's Dozen'', edited by

. Harcourt Trade Publishers, Harcourt, 1995) * "Splatter" (''The Sandman Book of Dreams'',

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, ed. Harper Prism, 2002) * "Little Red and the Big Bad" (''Swan Sister'', edited by

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and

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, 2003) * "The People Who Owned the Bible" (Self-published on Will Shetterly's blog, January 10, 2005) * "Kasim's Haj" (Self-published on Will Shetterly's blog and given into the public domain, January 1, 2006)

Novels

* ''Cats Have No Lord'' (1985) * ''Witch Blood'' (1986) * ''The Tangled Lands'' (1989) * ''Elsewhere'' (1991) * ''Nevernever'' (1993) * '' Dogland'' (1997) * ''Chimera'' (2000) * ''Thor's Hammer (The Voyage of the Basset)'' (2000) * ''The Gospel of the Knife'' (July 2007) * ''Midnight Girl'' ( An Online Novel; scroll to External Links, and it is

Collection

*''Double Feature'' (1995, collected works with

) from

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Anthology series

*''

'' (1985,

, edited with Emma Bull) *'' Liavek: The Players of Luck'' (1986,

, edited with Emma Bull) *'' Liavek: Wizard's Row'' (1987,

, edited with Emma Bull) *'' Liavek: Spells of Binding'' (1988,

, edited with Emma Bull) *'' Liavek: Festival Week'' (1990,

, edited with Emma Bull)

Nonfiction

Awards

He won the

for Fantasy & Science Fiction for his novel ''Elsewhere'', and was nominated for the 2008

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for his novel, ''The Gospel of the Knife''.

References

External links

Official website
*
Bibliography
on SciFan *
Will Shetterly's weblog
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