Teresa Nielsen Hayden

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Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Viable Paradise X, October, 2006

Teresa Nielsen Hayden (born March 21, 1956) is an American science fiction editor, fanzine writer, essayist, and teacher.

Born Teresa Nielsen, she grew up in a Mormon household in Mesa, Arizona, but was excommunicated from the Mormon church in 1980[1]. In her youth, she served as a page in the Arizona House of Representatives [2]. She appended Hayden to her name upon marrying the former Patrick Hayden in 1979; he also changed his name to Patrick Nielsen Hayden.

She is a former managing editor and, now, consulting editor at Tor Books. In 1994, a collection of her essays, Making Book (ISBN 0-915368-55-2), was published by NESFA Press. It is now in its third printing. The second printing is the preferred edition[3].

She is also one of the regular instructors for the writing workshop Viable Paradise.

Outside the science-fiction community, Nielsen Hayden is probably best known for her weblog, Making Light, where she writes about a wide range of subjects such as animal hoarding, publishing scams, and global political events from a left-wing perspective.

Nielsen Hayden has narcolepsy and had been taking Cylert for the condition. However the Food and Drug Administration withdrew the drug from the marketplace in January 2006 with insufficient warning, leaving her with no effective replacement.[4]

1 Hugo Award nominations
2 Recent and forthcoming books edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
- 2.1 2006
3 Notable books edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
4 Bibliography
5 External links

[edit] Hugo Award nominations

1995 nominee for Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book for Making Book
1991 nominee for Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer
1989 co-nominee for Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine for The New York Review of Science Fiction
1984 nominee for Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer
1984 co-nominee, with Patrick Nielsen Hayden, for Hugo Award for Best Fanzine for Izzard

[edit] Recent and forthcoming books edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

[edit] 2006

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (mass market paperback, reprint of Tor hardcover)
The Book of Ballads by Charles Vess & co. (trade paperback, reprint of Tor hardcover)
Wolf Hunting by Jane Lindskold (new hardcover)
Grease Monkey by Tim Eldred (new hardcover)
Child of a Rainless Year by Jane Lindskold (mass market paperback, reprint of Tor hardcover)
Dzur by Steven Brust (new hardcover)
Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls by Jane Lindskold (trade paperback, reprint of Avon mass-market paperback original)
The Disunited States of America by Harry Turtledove (new hardcover)
Brokedown Palace by Steven Brust (trade paperback, reprint of Ace mass-market paperback original)
Adventures in Unhistory by Avram Davidson (hardcover, reprint of Owlswick Press hardcover)

[edit] Notable books edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Poul Anderson: Alight in the Void
Steven Brust: Dragon, Issola, Dzur, The Viscount of Adrilankha: The Paths of the Dead, The Lord of Castle Black, Sethra Lavode
Avram Davidson: The Avram Davidson Treasury (Locus poll winner, Best Collection, 1999)
John M. Ford: The Last Hot Time
Shariann Lewitt: Memento Mori, Interface Masque, Rebel Sutra
Jane Lindskold: The Buried Pyramid, Child of a Rainless Year, The Firekeeper Saga: Through Wolf's Eyes, Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart, The Dragon of Despair, Wolf Captured, Wolf Hunting
James D. Macdonald and Debra Doyle: The Stars Asunder
Douglas Morgan: Tiger Cruise
James White: The Galactic Gourmet, Mind Changer, Final Diagnosis, Double Contact
Robert Charles Wilson: Darwinia (Aurora Award winner, 1999), Blind Lake (Aurora Award winner, 2004), Spin (Hugo Award winner, 2006)

[edit] Bibliography

Making Book (NESFA Press, 1994)
"Some Notes Toward Two Analyses of Auctorial Method and Voice", in The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha (Tor Books, 2002)
"Remarks on Some Cliches I Have (By Definition) Known Too Well", Subterranean Magazine #4 (Subterranean Press, 2006)
Chapter 15 of Atlanta Nights (2005)