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Mary Robinette Kowal
Born (1969-02-08) February 8, 1969 (age 55)
Raleigh, North Carolina
OccupationProfessional puppeteer and Author
NationalityAmerican
GenreScience fiction and fantasy
Notable worksShades of Milk and Honey, "Evil Robot Monkey", "For Want of a Nail"
Notable awardsJohn W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (2008), Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2011), Hugo Award for Best Novelette (2014)
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Website
www.maryrobinettekowal.com

Mary Robinette Kowal (born February 8, 1969 in Raleigh, N.C., as Mary Robinette Harrison) is an American author and puppeteer. She also served as art director for Shimmer Magazine and in 2010 was named art director for Weird Tales. She served as secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for two years, and was elected to the position of SFWA vice-president in 2010. In 2008, her second year of eligibility, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

Kowal has worked as a professional puppeteer since 1989. She has performed for the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Productions, and her own production company, Other Hand Productions. She also worked in Iceland on the children's television show LazyTown for two seasons. She was recently accepted as a participant in a Sesame Puppetry Workshop.

Kowal's work as an author includes "For Solo Cello, op. 12," (originally published in Cosmos Magazine and reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition,) which made the preliminary ballot for the 2007 Nebula Awards. Her fiction has also appeared in Talebones Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Apex Digest, among other venues. Her debut novel Shades of Milk and Honey was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Two of her short fiction works have been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story: "Evil Robot Monkey" in 2009 and "For Want of a Nail," which won the award in 2011. Her novelette, The Lady Astronaut of Mars was ineligible for the 2013 Hugo Awards because it had only been released as part of an audiobook, but was later published in text format and went on to win the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.

In 2009, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.

After appearing several times as a guest star in the podcast, Writing Excuses, she became a full-time cast member at the start of their sixth season in 2011.

Publications

Novels

  • Shades of Milk and Honey, Tor Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7653-2556-3
  • Glamour in Glass, Tor Books, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7653-2557-0
  • Without a Summer, Tor Books, 2013, ISBN 978-0-7653-3415-2
  • Valour and Vanity, Tor Books, 2014, ISBN 9780765334169
  • Of Noble Family, Tor Books, 2015, ISBN 978-0-7653-7836-1

Novellas

Collections

Short stories

References

  1. Biography for Mary Robinette Kowal at IMDb
  2. Mary Robinette Kowal Website
  3. VanderMeer promoted to editor in chief, Weird Tales, 2010-01-25.
  4. SFWA Contacts
  5. The Hugo Awards
  6. Mary Robinette Kowal (Web Lackey, Actor, Writer)(archive), Williamette Radio Workshop
  7. Mary Robinette Kowal FAQs
  8. Kowal, Mary Robinette. "My audition for the Sesame Street puppetry workshop. Video and results." Journal January 3, 2014; accessed January 5, 2014
  9. Cosmos
  10. Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, Rich Horton, Editor. ISBN 978-0809572502
  11. Nebula Preliminary Ballot, 2007
  12. Mary Robinette Kowal Bibliography
  13. "announces the 2010 Nebula Award Nominees". SFWA. 2011-02-22. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
  14. "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2009 Hugo Awards". Locusmag.com. 2009-08-09. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
  15. Locus Publications. "Locus Online News » 2011 Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners". Locusmag.com. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
  16. "The Lady Astronaut of Mars". Tor.com. September 11, 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  17. "2014 Hugo Award Winners". The Hugo Awards. August 17, 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  18. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection, Northern Illinois University
  19. "6.1: Can Creativity be Taught?". Writing Excuses. Retrieved 2013-12-06.

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