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Mary Rickert,known asM. Rickert(born December 11, 1959, inPort Washington, Wisconsin), is an American writer offantasyfiction.Many of her stories have been published inThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.Her first collection,Map of Dreams,was published byGolden Gryphon Pressin 2006; her second collection,Holiday,appeared in 2010 from the same publisher. She lives in Wisconsin.
Mary Rickert | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 11, 1959 Port Washington, Wisconsin,U.S. |
| Pen name | M. Rickert |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
Rickert's fiction has won or been nominated for several major awards. "Journey into the Kingdom" was nominated for the 2006Nebula AwardforBest Noveletteand anInternational Horror Guild Award,and won the 2007World Fantasy AwardforBest Short Fiction.[1]Map of Dreamswon the 2007 World Fantasy Award forBest Collectionand the 2007Crawford Award,and the collection's title story was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award forBest Novella.On November 10, 2015,Small Beer Presswill publish Rickert's third collection,You Have Never Been Here,containing selected stories from her first two collections, as well as three new stories, one of them a novella.
Bibliography
editNovels
edit- The Memory Garden.Sourcebooks Landmark. 2014.ISBN978-1402297120.
- The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie.Undertow Publications. 2021.ISBN978-1988964324.
Short fiction
edit- Collections
| Year | Title | Identifiers | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Map of Dreams | ISBN1930846444 | Golden Gryphon Press | Contents: "Map of Dreams", "Dreams: Dreaming of the Sun", "Leda", "Cold Fires", "Angel Face", "Night Blossoms", "Nightmares: Feeding the Beast", "Bread and Bombs", "Art Is Not a Violent Subject", "Anyway", "A Very Little Madness Goes a Long Way", "Waking: What I Saw, When I Looked", "The Girl Who Ate Butterflies", "Many Voices", "More Beautiful Than You", "Peace on Suburbia", "Rising: Flight", "Moorina of the Seals", "The Harrowing", "The Super Hero Saves the World", "The Chambered Fruit" |
| 2010 | Holiday | ISBN1930846657 | Golden Gryphon Press | Contents: "Holiday", "Memoir of a Deer Woman", "Journey into the Kingdom", "The Machine", "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account", "Don't Ask", "Traitor", "Was She Wicked? Was She Good?", "You Have Never Been Here", "War is Beautiful", "The Christmas Witch" |
| 2015 | You Have Never Been Here | ISBN978-1618731104 | Small Beer Press | Contents: "Memoir of a Deer Woman", "Journey into the Kingdom", "The Shipbuilder", "Cold Fires", "The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece", "The Christmas Witch", "Holiday", "The Chambered Fruit", "The Mothers of Voorhisville", "You Have Never Been Here" |
- List of stories
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Girl Who Ate Butterflies" | 1999 | Rickert, M. (Aug 1999). "The Girl Who Ate Butterflies".F&SF.97(2): 71–82. | Rickert, M. (2006).Map of Dreams.Golden Gryphon Press. | |
| "Angel Face" | 2000 | Rickert, M. (Jul 2000). "Angel Face".F&SF.99(1): 50–55. | Rickert, M. (2006).Map of Dreams.Golden Gryphon Press. | |
| "Moorina" | 2001 | Rickert, M. (Feb 2001). "Moorina".F&SF.100(2): 95–102. | ||
| "Journey into the Kingdom" | 2006 | Rickert, M. (May 2006). "Journey Into the Kingdom".F&SF.110(5): 132–158. | ||
| "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account" | 2008 | Rickert, M. (October–November 2008). "Evidence of Love In a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account".F&SF.115(4&5): 192–200. | Rickert, M. (2006).Map of Dreams.Golden Gryphon Press. | |
| "Evergreen" | 2019 | Rickert, M. (November 5, 2019). "Evergreen".F&SF.137(11 & 12): 129–135. | ||
| "Another F*cken Fairy Tale" | 2020 | Rickert, M. (May 5, 2020). "Another F*cken Fairy Tale".F&SF.138(5 & 6): 247–255. | ||
| "Last Night at the Fair" | 2020 | Rickert, M. (July–August 2020). "Last Night at the Fair".F&SF.139(1 & 2): 28–34. |
Awards
edit- 2007World Fantasy Award for Best Short StoryforJourney into the Kingdom[2]
- 2007World Fantasy Award for Best CollectionforMap of Dreams[2]
- 2007Crawford AwardforMap of Dreams[2]
- 2011Shirley Jackson Awardfor Best Short Fiction “The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece”.
References
edit- ^World Fantasy Convention (2010)."Award Winners and Nominees".Archived fromthe originalon 2010-12-01.Retrieved4 Feb2011.
- ^abc"Mary Rickert".The Locus Index to SF Awards.Locus Magazine. Archived fromthe originalon 2014-03-24.Retrieved2014-04-27.
External links
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- M. Rickertat theInternet Speculative Fiction Database
- An interview with M. Rickert
- Another brief interview
- A third interview
- Online texts of Rickert's stories"Anyway"and"The Girl Who Ate Butterflies"
- Golden Gryphon Press official site- AboutMap of Dreams