Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal (born February 8, 1969 as Mary Robinette Harrison[1]) is an American author and puppeteer.[2]

Mary Robinette Kowal
Born	February 8, 1969 Raleigh, North Carolina
Occupation	Puppeteer author voice actor
Nationality	American
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy
Notable works	The Calculating Stars Shades of Milk and Honey "Evil Robot Monkey" "For Want of a Nail"
Notable awards	John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (2008) Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2011) Hugo Award for Best Related Work (2013) Hugo Award for Best Novelette (2014) Nebula Award for Best Novel (2018) Hugo Award for Best Novel (2019)
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Website
www.maryrobinettekowal.com

Life and career

Mary Robinette Harrison was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, attended William G. Enloe High School,[3][4] and studied at East Carolina University. She graduated with a degree in Art Education with a minor in theater, and began work as a professional puppeteer in 1989.

She has performed for the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Productions, and her own production company, Other Hand Productions.[5] She also worked in Iceland on the children's television show LazyTown for two seasons.[6] She was accepted as a participant in a Sesame Puppetry Workshop.[7]

Kowal served as art director for Shimmer Magazine and in 2010 was named art director for Weird Tales.[8] She served as secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for two years, was elected to the position of SFWA Vice President in 2010, and was elected SFWA President in 2019.[9] In 2008, her second year of eligibility, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.[10]

Kowal's work as an author includes "For Solo Cello, op. 12,"[11] (originally published in Cosmos Magazine and reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition,[12]) which made the preliminary ballot for the 2007 Nebula Awards.[13] Her fiction has also appeared in Talebones Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Apex Digest, among other venues.[14] Her debut novel Shades of Milk and Honey was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel.[15] Two of her short fiction works have been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story: "Evil Robot Monkey" in 2009[16] and "For Want of a Nail," which won the award in 2011.[17] 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[18] and went on to win the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.[19] The Calculating Stars, the first novel in her Lady Astronaut series, won the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 2018 Sidewise Award for Alternate History.[20][21][22]

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.[23]

Kowal is also a voice actor, having recorded audiobook versions of books written by authors such as John Scalzi, Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow and Kage Baker.[24]

In July 2018, after criticism [25] that many authors who were Hugo award finalists at the August 2018 World Science Fiction Convention had not been selected to participate on that year's panels, Kowal took over as Programming chair and "repaired and replaced" many sessions, working with a large and diverse team to do so. [26]

Kowal has served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America since 2019.[27]

Awards and nominations

• Winner, 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer[28]
• Finalist, 2009 Hugo Award for Best Short Story - "Evil Robot Monkey", The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Vol. 2[29]
• Finalist, 2010 Locus Award for Best Novelette - "First Flight" (Tor.com)[30]
• Finalist, 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel - Shades of Milk and Honey, Tor Books[31]
• Finalist, 2011 Locus Award for Best First Novel - Shades of Milk and Honey, Tor Books[32]
• Winner, 2011 Hugo Award for Best Short Story - "For Want of a Nail", Asimov's Science Fiction[33]
• "Kiss Me Twice" (Asimov's Science Fiction)
  • Finalist, 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novella[34]
  • Finalist, 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novella[35]
  • Finalist, 2012 Locus Award for Best Novella[36]
• Writing Excuses
  • Finalist, 2012 Hugo Award for Best Related Work - Writing Excuses Season 6[37]
  • Winner, 2013 Hugo Award for Best Related Work - Writing Excuses Season 7[38]
  • Finalist, 2014 Hugo Award for Best Related Work - Writing Excuses Season 8[39]
• Finalist, 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novel - Glamour in Glass[40]
• Finalist, 2013 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel - Glamour in Glass[41]
• Finalist, 2013 Locus Award for Best Novelette - "The Lady Astronaut of Mars" (from Rip-Off!)[42]
• Winner, 2014 Hugo Award for Best Novelette - "The Lady Astronaut of Mars", Tor.com / maryrobinettekowal.com[43]
• Finalist, 2015 Seiun Award for Best Translated Story - "For Want of a Nail", translated by Fumiyo Harashima (Hayakawa SF 4/14)[44]
• Finalist, 2017 Mythopoeic Award for Best Fantasy Novel - Ghost Talkers[45]
• Finalist, 2018 Locus Award for Best Novelette - "The Worshipful Society of Glovers" (Uncanny 7-8/17)[46]
• The Calculating Stars, Tor Books
  • Winner, 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novel[47]
  • Winner, 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel[48]
  • Winner, 2019 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel[49]
  • Finalist, 2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel of the year[50]

Publications

Glamourist Histories series

• 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

Lady Astronaut of Mars series

• "The Lady Astronaut of Mars", Audible (store) and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, 2012, (winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novelette)
• The Calculating Stars, Tor Books, 2018, ISBN 978-0-7653-7838-5 (winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Nebula Award for Best Novel)
• The Fated Sky, Tor Books, 2018, ISBN 978-0-7653-9894-9
• The Relentless Moon, Tor Books, 2020, ISBN 978-1250236968[51]
• The Martian Contingency, Tor Books, announced for 2022[51]

Standalone novels

• Ghost Talkers, Tor Books, 2016, ISBN 978-0-7653-7825-5
• The Spare Man, Tor Books, announced for 2021

Novellas

• Kiss Me Twice, Asimov's Science Fiction, 2011 (nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novella)
• Forest of Memory, Tor.com / maryrobinettekowal.com, 2014

Novelettes

• "The Lady Astronaut of Mars", Tor.com / maryrobinettekowal.com, 2013
• "A Fire in the Heavens", Shadows Beneath anthology, 2014
• "The Worshipful Society of Glovers" (Uncanny 7-8/17)[46]

Collections

• Scenting the Dark and Other Stories, Subterranean Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59606-267-2
• Word Puppets, Prime Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-60701-456-0

Short stories

• "Just Right", The First Line, 2004
• "Rampion", The First Line, 2004
• "The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland", The First Line, 2004
• "Portrait of Ari", Strange Horizons, 2006
• "Bound Man", Twenty Epics, 2006
• "Cerbo in Vitra ujo", Apex Digest, 2006
• "Locked In", Apex Digest, 2006
• "This Little Pig", Cicada, 2007
• "For Solo Cello, op. 12", Cosmos, 2007
• "Horizontal Rain", Apex Online, 2007
• "Death Comes But Twice", Talebones, 2007
• "Some Other Day", All Possible Worlds, 2007
• "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", Gratia Placenti, 2007
• "Suspension and Disbelief", Doctor Who: Short Trips: Destination Prague, 2007
• "Clockwork Chickadee", Clarkesworld Magazine, 2008
• "Scenting the Dark", Apex Online, 2008
• "Waiting for Rain", Subterranean Magazine, 2008
• "Chrysalis", Aoife’s Kiss, 2008
• "Evil Robot Monkey", The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Vol. 2, 2008 (nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story)
• "At the Edge of Dying", Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, 2009
• "Body Language", InterGalactic Medicine Show, 2009
• "The Consciousness Problem", Asimov's Science Fiction, 2009
• "First Flight", Tor.com, 2009
• "Ginger Stuyvesant and the Case of the Haunted Nursery", Talebones, 2009
• "Jaiden’s Weaver", Diamonds in the Sky: An Astronomical Anthology, 2009
• "Prayer at Dark River", Innsmouth Free Press, 2009
• "Ring Road", Dark Faith Anthology, 2010
• "The Bride Replete", Apex Online, 2010
• "Beyond the Garden Close", Apex Online, 2010
• "Typewriter Triptych", Sharable.net, 2010
• "For Want of a Nail", Asimov's Science Fiction, 2010 (winner of the Hugo Award for Best Short Story)
• "Salt of the Earth", Redstone Science Fiction, 2010
• "American Changeling", Daily Science Fiction, 2010
• "Changement d’itinéraire (Changed Itinerary)", Légendes, 2010
• "Birthright", 2020 Visions, 2010
• "Water to Wine", METAtropolis: Cascadia, 2010
• "We Interrupt This Broadcast", The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination, 2013

Audio originals

• "The Original", Dragonsteel Entertainment, 2020

References

1. Biography for Mary Robinette Kowal at IMDb
2. Mary Robinette Kowal Website
3. Kowal, Mary Robinette (2010-08-30). "Mary's Dragon*Con 2010 schedule". Mary Robinette Kowal. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
4. Kowal, Mary Robinette (2010-08-03). "Book Release Day for Shades of Milk and Honey". Mary Robinette Kowal. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
5. Mary Robinette Kowal (Web Lackey, Actor, Writer) (archive), Willamette Radio Workshop
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51. "Mary Robinette Kowal will Return to Space with Two New Lady Astronaut Novels!". Tor.com. 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2018-11-21.

External links

• Official website
• Mary Robinette Kowal's Weekly Fantasy Column at AMCtv.com
• Mary Robinette Kowal at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database