Sarah Pinsker
| Sarah Pinsker | |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
| Years active | 2012-present |
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Sarah Pinsker is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy short fiction author whose stories have appeared in publications such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Lightspeed, along with multiple "year's best" collections. A four-time finalist for the Nebula Award, Pinsker won the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette.[1] Her fiction has also won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and been on the shortlist for the Tiptree Award.
Life
Pinsker currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she has managed grants for a nonprofit.[2] In addition to writing fiction she is a singer/songwriter with the band Stalking Horses[3] and has had multiple albums released through independent labels.[4] She also volunteers as director at large for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and hosts the Baltimore Science Fiction Society's Dangerous Voices Variety Hour reading series.[5]
Writing
Pinsker says her writing is heavily influenced by the science fiction and literary fiction which filled her parents' home,[6] adding she is one of the rare authors who read "short stories as much as novels" when she was young.[7] Among her early influences as an author were the works of Ursula K. LeGuin[8] and Kate Wilhelm.[9] Later influences on her fiction include Octavia Butler, Karen Joy Fowler, Kij Johnson, and Kelly Link.[10]
In recent years Pinsker has published her short fiction in magazines such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, the Journal of Unlikely Cartography, and Fireside. Anthologies containing her stories include Long Hidden, How to Live on Other Planets, and Queers Destroy Science Fiction. Among the collections of the "year's best" stories which include her stories are The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 2, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol 2, Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015, The Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction, and The Year's Best Military and Adventure Fiction 2015.
Pinsker's fiction has been called "thoughtful, subtle,"[11] "creepy"[12] and "dreamlike."[13] Speaking of her fiction, Pinsker says "It is a good time to be someone who has something to say about a group or a personal experience that hasn't been touched on before. Science fiction looks at the world through a slightly different lens, so it's fun to put that lens onto new experiences."[14]
Awards
- "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" (novelette in Strange Horizons, July 2013) won the 2014 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short fiction[15] and was a finalist for the Nebula Award.
- "No Lonely Seafarer" (short story in Lightspeed, Sept. 2014) selected as an honorable mention for the 2014 Tiptree Award.
- "A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide" (Short story in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March-April 2014) was a finalist for the 2015 Nebula Award.
- "Our Lady of the Open Road" (novelette in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2015) won the 2016 Nebula Award, was on the shortlist for the Sturgeon Award, and placed third in the 2016 Asimov's Readers' Poll.
- "Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea" (novelette in Lightspeed, February 2016) selected as a finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award.[16][17]
External links
References
- ↑ "People Want These Stories': Women Win Big At The Nebula Awards" by K. Tempest Bradford. National Public Radio, May 16, 2016.
- ↑ "Destroying Science Fiction: An Interview with Nebula Award Winning Writer, Sarah Pinsker" by Michael B. Tager, What Weekly, Sept. 22, 2016.
- ↑ "Sarah Pinsker Interview – Award Winning Short Story Author" by Jean Marie Ward, Buzzy Mag, February 20, 2015.
- ↑ "Destroying Science Fiction: An Interview with Nebula Award Winning Writer, Sarah Pinsker" by Michael B. Tager, What Weekly, Sept. 22, 2016.
- ↑ "Interview with Sarah Pinsker" by Andrea Johnson, Apex Magazine, May 5, 2015.
- ↑ "Destroying Science Fiction: An Interview with Nebula Award Winning Writer, Sarah Pinsker" by Michael B. Tager, What Weekly, Sept. 22, 2016.
- ↑ "Sarah Pinsker Interview – Award Winning Short Story Author" by Jean Marie Ward, Buzzy Mag, February 20, 2015.
- ↑ "Destroying Science Fiction: An Interview with Nebula Award Winning Writer, Sarah Pinsker" by Michael B. Tager, What Weekly, Sept. 22, 2016.
- ↑ "Interview with Sarah Pinsker" by Andrea Johnson, Apex Magazine, May 5, 2015.
- ↑ "Interview with Sarah Pinsker" by Andrea Johnson, Apex Magazine, May 5, 2015.
- ↑ "2016 in Review" by Rachel Swirsky, Locus Magazine, February 2017, page 33.
- ↑ "Interview: Sarah Pinsker" by Deborah Stanish, Uncanny Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2016
- ↑ Gardnerspace: A Short Fiction Column" by Gardner Dozois, Locus Magazine, May 2016, page 12.
- ↑ "Changing the face of diversity in Canadian comics and sci-fi" by Samia Madwar, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, August 30, 2016.
- ↑ "2014 Campbell and Sturgeon Award Winners" Locus Magazine, June 10, 2014.
- ↑ Award summary for Sarah Pinsker, ISFDB, accessed March 4, 2017.
- ↑ "SFWA Announces 2016 Nebula, Norton, and Bradbury Award Nominees! - The Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2017-03-06.