March 2018: Silvia Moreno Garcia, Jack Skillingstead and Nancy Kress
SILVIA MORENO GARCIA is Mexican by birth and Canadian by inclination. She has edited several anthologies, including She Walks in Shadows (World Fantasy Award winner, published in the USA as Cthulhu’s Daughters), Sword & Mythos, Fungi, Dead North, and Fractured. Her debut novel, Signal to Noise, won the Members Choice Copper Cylinder Award in Canada in 2016, and was nominated for the British Fantasy, Locus, Sunburst and Aurora awards. Her second novel, Certain Dark Things, was selected as one of NPR’s best books of 2016 and was a finalist for the Locus and Sunburst awards. Her recent novel, The Beautiful Ones, is a fantasy of manners about two telekinetics navigating the social strictures of their society, and their quest to find themselves and happiness. Garcia’s first collection, This Strange Way of Dying, was a finalist for the Sunburst Award. Her stories have also been collected in Love & Other Poisons.
JACK SKILLINGSTEAD submitted a story, in 2001, to Stephen King’s “On Writing” contest. He won — and began selling regularly to major science fiction and fantasy markets. To date he has published more than 40 stories in various magazines, Year’s Best volumes and original anthologies; and two novels, Harbinger, which was nominated for a Locus Award for First Novel, and Life on the Preservation, which was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. In addition, his story collection, Are You There and Other Stories was also nominated for a Locus Award for Best Collection. Jack’s short story “Dead Worlds” was short-listed for the Theodore Sturgeon Award. He has been nominated for both the Theodore Sturgeon Award and the Philip K. Dick Award.
NANCY KRESS is from East Aurora, New York. Her first story, “The Earth Dwellers,” appeared in Galaxy in 1976. Her first novel, The Prince of Morning Bells, appeared in 1981 from Pocket Books. In 1990 Kress went full-time as an SF writer, beginning with the novella version of “Beggars in Spain,” and now has 27 novels, three books on writing, four short story collections, and over 100 works of short fiction. Her fiction has won six Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
JACK SKILLINGSTEAD submitted a story, in 2001, to Stephen King’s “On Writing” contest. He won — and began selling regularly to major science fiction and fantasy markets. To date he has published more than 40 stories in various magazines, Year’s Best volumes and original anthologies; and two novels, Harbinger, which was nominated for a Locus Award for First Novel, and Life on the Preservation, which was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. In addition, his story collection, Are You There and Other Stories was also nominated for a Locus Award for Best Collection. Jack’s short story “Dead Worlds” was short-listed for the Theodore Sturgeon Award. He has been nominated for both the Theodore Sturgeon Award and the Philip K. Dick Award.
NANCY KRESS is from East Aurora, New York. Her first story, “The Earth Dwellers,” appeared in Galaxy in 1976. Her first novel, The Prince of Morning Bells, appeared in 1981 from Pocket Books. In 1990 Kress went full-time as an SF writer, beginning with the novella version of “Beggars in Spain,” and now has 27 novels, three books on writing, four short story collections, and over 100 works of short fiction. Her fiction has won six Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
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