Who is Carol Emshwiller?
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Besides her novel, The
Mount, and collection of short fiction,
Report
to the Men's Club and Other Stories, who is this writer? It's
not just the vast staff at Small Beer Press who think she's an incredible
writer, check out what happy readers and writers are saying about
her new books on those pages above, and have a look below too see
that this is one writer who has been making readers very happy for
a good amount of time!
Carol Emshwiller's stories have
appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Century,
Scifiction,
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet,
TriQuarterly, Transatlantic Review, New Directions, Orbit, Epoch,
The Voice Literary Supplement, Omni, Crank!,
Confrontation, and many other anthologies and magazines.
Carol is a MacDowell Colony Fellow
and has been awarded an NEA grant, a New York State Creative Artists
Public Service grant, a New York State Foundation for the Arts grant,
the ACCENT/ASCENT fiction prize, and the World Fantasy, Nebula, Philip
K. Dick, Gallun, and Icon awards.
Carol was Guest of Honor at Wiscon
27, May 23-6, 2003 (bio).
Recently, her stories have appeared
in Trampoline, McSweeney's
Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, Leviathan
3, and Polyphony.
Carol Emshwiller is the author
of three previous collections of short fiction: The Start of the
End of it All (Winner of the 1991 World Fantasy Award), Verging
on the Pertinent, and Joy in Our Cause, and three
novels Carmen
Dog, Ledoyt,
and Leaping
Man Hill. So, how have her previous books been received?
She lives in New York City in
the winter where she teaches at New York University School of Continuing
Education. She spends the summers in a shack in the Sierras in California.
Interviews
Bookslut
Fantastic
Metropolis
Strange
Horizons
Stories
"Boys"
"Mrs.
Jones"
"Josephine"
"Water
Master"
"The
Circular Library of Stones"
Films
Pilobolus
and Joan (based on Carol Emshwiller's story
"Metamorphosed")
Family
Focus (voiceover)
Skin
Matrix
Skin
Matrix S (short version)
Links
Carol Emshwiller's website
Fantastic
Metropolis: Three essays
by Carol Emshwiller:
How
My Husband's Death Changed My Writing
Resonance
Writing
Rules I Like to Break
Biography on Scifiction
Carol Emshwiller page on Alpha
Ralpha Blvd.
Tom
Christensen -- Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief from 1990-2000
of Mercury House
Carol Emshwiller is represented by:
Wendy
Weil
The Wendy Weil Agency, Inc.
232 Madison Avenue, Suite 1300
New York, NY 10016
(212) 685-0030
(212) 685-0765
wweil@wendyweil.com
