Delia Sherman

Delia Sherman was born in Tokyo, Japan, and brought up in New York City.  She spent much of her early life at one end of a classroom or another, at Brown University where she earned a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies in 1981 and at Boston University and Northeastern, where she taught Freshman Composition and Fantasy as Literature.  Her first novel, Through a Brazen Mirror (Ace, 1989), was an Ace Fantasy Special.  In 1990, she was nominated for the Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer.  Her second novel, The Porcelain Dove (Dutton, 1993; Plume, 1994), won the Mythopoeic Award.  She made her debut in the world of children’s literature with short stories in The Green Man and Faery Reel (edited by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow) and Firebirds (Viking, 2003).  Her first novel for children is Changeling (Viking, 2006).  Delia has been a judge for the Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Novel, served on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and is a founding member of the Interstitial Arts Foundation (www.interstitialarts.org).  As an editor of books and anthologies, Delia’s continuing quest is to get more of the kind of fantasy she likes out to readers.  She has been a contributing editor for Tor Books and has co-edited, with Ellen Kushner and Don Keller, the fantasy anthology The Horns of Elfland (Roc) as well as the Bordertown punk-elf anthology The Essential Bordertown with Terri Windling.  With Theodora Goss, she edited Interficitons: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing (Small Beer Press, 2007).  She teaches SF and Fantasy writing whenever she can at Odyssey, Clarion, and workshops at regional and national science fiction conventions.  Delia lives with fellow author and fantasist Ellen Kushner in a rambling apartment in New York City.  She is a social rather than a solitary writer, and can work anywhere, which is a good thing because she loves to travel, and if she couldn’t write on airplanes, she’d never get anything done.

Recently published - Changeling (fantasy for young people); stories in Salon Fantastique and Coyote Road.

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