Mary Turzillo

Mary Turzillo's "Mars Is no Place for Children" won the 1999 Nebula, and _An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl_, her first novel, appeared in Analog.  Among other magazines, _Asimov's_, _F& SF_, _Interzone_, _SF Age_, _Weird Tales_, _Oceans of the Mind_, _Electric Velocipede_, _Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet_, _Goblin Fruit_, and _Strange Horizons_ have published her fiction and poetry.  Her story "Scout" is slated for publication in George Scithers' cool new magazine Cat Tales.  Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, her poetry collection, will appear from vanZeno press this year.  Her longer stories Ewaipanoma (Sam's Dot, ed.Tyree Campbell) and American Portmanteau Theater (Scrybe Press, ed. Nathaniel Barker) will appear as chapbooks in 2008.  She is working on a splendid collaboration of poetry, art, and fiction with award-winning artist/writer Marge Simon.  A novel about the adventures of Marcus and Zora Smithe (parents of her plucky Martian girl hero Kapera) is in the works.  An Emeritus Professor at Kent State University, she founded Cajun Sushi Hamsters and has taught in NASA's Science through Arts.  Her favorite people include her son, Jack Brizzi, Jr., and her husband, writer-scientist Geoffrey A. Landis.  Geoff and Mary have two cats: Lurker At The Threshold and Mahasamatman-But-His-Friends-Call-Him-Sam.  The cats claim that her fascination with the color turquoise is evidence of a forgotten alien abduction.

Recently published - An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl (novel in Analog) Ewaipanoma (Sam's Dot) Your Cat & Other Space Aliens (vanZeno House) The National Portmanteau Theater (Scrybe Press)

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