Nicola Griffith

Award-winning author of Ammonite and Slow River. Editor, with Stephen Pagel, of the Bending the Landscape trilogy of queer fantasy, SF, and horror (respectively). Three non-SF novels: The Blue Place and its sequels Stay and Always.

Bibliography

Novels

• Ammonite (1993)
• Slow River (1995)

Aud Torvingen series: (not science fiction)

• The Blue Place (1998)
• Stay (2002)
• Always (2007)

Short Story Collections

• With Her Body (2004) (Aqueduct Press, ISBN 0-9746559-4-5)
  • "Touching Fire" (first pubd Interzone, 1993)
  • "Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese" (first pubd Interzone, 1991)
  • "Yaguara" (first published in slightly different form in Little Deaths, ed. Ellen Datlow, 1994)
  • Afterword by L. Timmel Duchamp

Edited Anthologies

• Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (1997) (edited with Stephen Pagel)
• Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (1998) (edited with Stephen Pagel)
• Bending the Landscape: Horror (2001) (edited with Stephen Pagel)

Memoirs

• An Now We Are Going To Have A Party (2007) (limited edition)

Short Stories

• "Mirrors and Burnstone" (1988) Interzone #25; and Interzone: The Fourth Anthology (Simon & Schuster, 1989; NEL, 1990) (full text at link below)\
• "The Voyage South" (1989) Red Thirst, ed. David Pringle (GW Books)
• "The Other" (1989) Ignorant Armies, ed. David Pringle (GW Books)
• "We Have Met the Alien" (1990) Iron Women, (Iron Press) (full text at link below)
• "Down the Path of the Sun" (1990) Interzone #34
• "Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese" (1991) Interzone #48,; Aboriginal SF, July 1991; The New Interzone Anthology (St. Martin's, 1997); and Infinity, September 2007 (full text at link below)
• "Wearing My Skin" (1991) Interzone #50

• "Yaguara" (1995) Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1995; Nebula Awards 32, ed. Jack Dann; Little Deaths, ed. Ellen Datlow (Orion 1994); With Her Body; and Bed ed. Victoria Brownworth (Haworth 2007)
• "Spawn of Satan?" (1999) Nature Futures series, December 9, 1999; and Nature Futures, ed Henry Gee (Tor)
• "A Troll Story" (2001) Ghost Writing, ed. Roger Weingarten (Invisible Cities)

Scholarship

Essays to appear in Para*doxa, and SF Eye, and Nebula Awards 30). Description of interests: gender, alienation, science fiction in general, gendered language, sex-battle texts--and related utopias and dystopias, evolution of a philosophy of art, the changing definitions of genius...and so on

Biography

Partner with Kelley Eskridge

External Links

• Author's website
• The Nicola Griffith Mailing List
• Text of "We Have Met the Alien"]
• Text of "Wearing My Skin"
• Text of "Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese"
• Text of "Down the Path of the Sun" (author's first story)
• Text of "Mirrors and Burnstone" (author's first sale)
• "The Erotics of Gender Ambiguity, an online symposium with L. Timmel Duchamp, Janet Barron, Jeanne Gomoll, Nicola Griffith, Suzy McKee Charnas, Rebecca Holden, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Janet Lafler, Sylvia Kelso, and Brian Attebery
• "Nicola Griffith's The Blue Place," by L. Timmel Duchamp