Greer Ilene Gilman is an American author of fantasy stories.
Greer Gilman | |
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| Born | Greer Ilene Gilman 1951 |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Notable awards | Crawford Award (1991), World Fantasy Award (2004), James Tiptree Jr. Award (2009) |
| Website | |
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Biography
editShe was educated at Wellesley College and the University of Cambridge, where she studied on a Vida Dutton Scudder Fellowship.[1] Her stories are noted for their dense prose style, which is strongly focused on native English roots, sometimes reminiscent of Gerard Manley Hopkins.[2] Her characteristic themes are drawn from a mixture of North English and Scottish ballads and seasonal rituals, which she uses to create a complex mythology centered on the seasons and constellations of her fictional world of Cloud.[3]
Her novel Moonwise, in which two women travel in a world they have created,[4] won the Crawford Award for 1991.[5] Her collection of three stories, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales won the Tiptree Award in 2009,[6] and has been shortlisted for the Mythopoeic Award in 2010.[7] Both are published by Small Beer Press. The novella "A Crowd of Bone" published in Trampoline: an anthology won the 2004 World Fantasy Awards.[8] Her work has also been published in Salon Fantastique, The Faces of Fantasy, and Mythic Delirium. Her essay, "Girl, Implicated: The Child in the Labyrinth in the Fantastic" appeared in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol.19 no. 2. Her chapter on "The Languages of the Fantastic" appears in the Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature.[9][10]
References
edit- ^ About Greer Gilman
- ^ Gregory Feeley, "Dickensian echoes, Baby Boomer woes and more in these fantastic tales both long and short," The Washington Post, July 27, 2003, p.T.13 [1] Archived October 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Farah Mendlesohn, Rhetorics of fantasy (Wesleyan University Press, 2008; ISBN 0-8195-6868-6), pp. 103–104
- ^ Reid, Robin Anne (2009). Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Overviews. Vol. 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-313-33591-4.
- ^ Locus Magazine SF Awards Index, 1992
- ^ James Tiptree, Jr., Literary Award Council
- ^ Mythopoeic Awards: 2010 Finalists Announced Archived June 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine – June 1, 2010
- ^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on December 1, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
- ^ The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, editors. (Cambridge University Press, 2012; ISBN 0521728738)
- ^ About Greer Gilman
External links
edit- Official site
- "A Crowd of Bone" by Greer Gilman, from the Trampoline anthology
- Greer Gilman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database