Delia Sherman

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Delia Sherman (right) with Ellen Kushner
Delia Sherman (right) with Ellen Kushner

Delia Sherman (born Tokyo, Japan) is an award-winning fantasy writer and editor. Her novel The Porcelain Dove won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. She lives in New York City with her wife and sometime collaborator, Ellen Kushner (they were married in 1996[1][2]).

Her three novels for adults are all exemplars of the subgenre Fantasy of Manners:

  • Through a Brazen Mirror (1988)
  • The Porcelain Dove (1993)
  • The Fall of the Kings (2002) (with Ellen Kushner}

Her most recent novel is Changeling (2006), for younger readers. It is set in "New York Between," a world she has explored in various short stories.

She is co-editor (with Ellen Kushner and Donald G. Keller) of the fantasy anthology The Horns of Elfland, and (with Terri Windling) of The Essential Bordertown.

With Kushner and others, she is actively involved in the Interstitial art movement. She was a founding member of (and the first president of) the Interstitial Arts Foundation. She is also a member of the Endicott Studio. Together with Kushner, she was an instructor at the Clarion Workshop 2007 in San Diego.

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  1. ^ Bickelhaupt, Susan; Maureen Dezell. "Will Klein Sign His Letters From Washington?", The Boston Globe, 1996-10-25. 
  2. ^ Simon, Clea (2004-09-01). It was love, but now it's gone. The Boston Globe. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.

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