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Sandra McDonald is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
She is a graduate of Ithaca College, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine. She also spent eight years as an officer in the United States Navy, during which time she lived in Guam, Newfoundland, England, and the United States. She has also worked as a Hollywood assistant, a software instructor, and an English composition teacher. She teaches college composition 1 and 2 at Kaplan University online. She attended the Viable Paradise writers' workshop.
Her short story "The Ghost Girls of Rumney Mill" was shortlisted for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 2003. Her first novel, The Outback Stars, was published in April, 2007, and was followed by two sequels: The Stars Down Under (2008) and The Stars Blue Yonder (2009).
Her short story collection Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories won the Lambda Award for LGBT SF, Fantasy and Horror works in 2011.
Originally from Revere, Massachusetts, she lives in Jacksonville, Florida.
Bibliography
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Novels
- The Outback Stars series
- The Outback Stars (2007), Tor Books, ISBN 0-765-31643-9
- The Stars Down Under (2008), Tor, ISBN 0-765-31644-7
- The Stars Blue Yonder (2009), Tor, ISBN 978-0-765-32041-4
Short fiction
Collections
- McDonald, Sandra (2010). Diana Comet and other improbable stories. Lethe Press.
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Stories
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| The Black feminist's guide to science fiction film editing | 2012 | McDonald, Sandra (December 2012). "The Black feminist's guide to science fiction film editing". Asimov's Science Fiction. Vol. 36, no. 12. pp. 52–64. {{cite magazine}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
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References
- O'Connell, Kit. "The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: A Review". SF Site. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
- "23rd Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners".
External links
- Sandra McDonald at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Sandra McDonald's official website
- Author's page at Macmillan.com
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American women writers
- American fantasy writers
- American science fiction writers
- American women novelists
- American women short story writers
- Asimov's Science Fiction people
- Ithaca College alumni
- Lambda Literary Award winners
- People from Revere, Massachusetts
- United States Navy officers
- University of Southern Maine alumni
- Women in the United States Navy
- Women science fiction and fantasy writers
- 21st-century American short story writers