Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler (born 1950 in the United States) is the author of four novels and dozens of short stories. She won the 1999 World Fantasy Award for *Black Glass and the 2003 Nebula Award for “What I Didn’t See.” Not always easily categorized, her work is subtle, highly conscious, and dryly inflected with irony. Not all readers (or critics) agree that her novel Sarah Canary is science fiction, and when Ellen Datlow published “What I Didn’t See” on scifiction.com’s website in July 2002, a controversy erupted over whether the story had genre “credentials.” (See L. Timmel Duchamp, “Something Rich and Strange: Karen Joy Fowler’s ‘What I Didn’t See’,” in Justine Larbalestier, ed., Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century for an account of the controversy and a discussion of why the story is science fiction.)

Karen Joy Fowler is a co-founder, with Pat Murphy, of the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award. She lives in Davis, California.

Bibliography

Novels

• Sarah Canary (1991)
• The Sweetheart Season (1996)
• Sister Noon (2002)
• The Jane Austen Book Club (2004)

Short Story Collections

• Artificial Things (1985)
• Peripheral Vision (1990)
• Black Glass (1997)

Anthologies

• Letters from Home (1991) with Pat Cadigan and Pat Murphy
• MOTA 3: Courage (2003)
• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 (2005) with Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith
• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 (2006) with Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith

Short stories

• "The War of the Roses" (1985)
• "Praxis" (1985)
• "The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things" (1985)
• "The Poplar Street Study" (1985)
• "Recalling Cinderella" (1985)
• "The Dragon’s Head" (1986)
• "The Gate of Ghosts" (1986)
• "Face Value" (1986)
• "Contention" (1986)
• "Other Planes" (1986)
• "The Bog People" (1986)
• "Wild Boys” Variations on a Theme" (1986)
• "The View from Venus: A Case Study" (1986)
• "The Faithful Companion at Forty" (1987)
• "Letters from Home" (1987)
• "Lily Red" (1988)
• "Heartland" (1988)
• "Duplicity" (1989)
• "Faded Roses" (1989)
• "Game Night at the Fox and Goose" (1989)
• "Lieserl" (1990)
• "Sarah Canary and the Mermaid" (1990)
• "The Dark" (1991)
• "Black Glass" (1991)
• "Shimabara" (1995)
• "The Brew" (1995)
• "The Marianas Islands" (1996)
• "The Elizabeth Complex" (1996)
• "Standing Room Only" (1997)
• "The Black Fairy’s Curse" (1997)
• "Go Back" (1998)
• "The Travails" (1998)
• "What I Didn’t See" (2002)
• "King Rat" (2003)
• "Private Grave 9" (2003)

External links

• [1] Karen Joy Fowler's web site
• [2] Wikipedia entry on Karen Joy Fowler
• [3] "What I Didn't See"
• [4]"The Elizabeth Complex"
• [5]"Standing Room Only"
• [6]Annotated Bibliography
• [7]Interview with Karen Joy Fowler
• [8]"Playing with the Big Boys: Alternate History in Karen Joy Fowler's 'Game Night at the Fox and Goose'" by L. Timmel Duchamp
• [9]"Karen Joy Fowler's 'Elizabeth Complex'" by L. Timmel Duchamp
• [10]Review of Sarah Canary by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• [11]Review of The Sweetheart Season by Kathleen Ann Goonan