Sarah Pinsker
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
| Years active | 2012–present |
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Sarah Pinsker is an American science fiction and fantasy author. A nine-time finalist for the Nebula Award, Pinsker's debut novel A Song for a New Day won the 2019 Nebula for Best Novel[1][2] while her story Our Lady of the Open Road won 2016 award for Best Novelette.[3] Her novelette "Two Truths and a Lie" received both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. Her fiction has also won the Philip K. Dick Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and been a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Tiptree Awards.
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Life
Pinsker was born in New York and lived in several places of the United States including Illinois and Texas.[4]:{{{3}}} When she was 14, her family settled in Toronto, Canada.[4]:{{{3}}} She returned to the US to attend college.[4]:{{{3}}} She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she has managed grants for a nonprofit. In addition to writing fiction she is a singer-songwriter with the band Stalking Horses[5] and has had multiple albums released through independent labels.[6] She also volunteers as director at large for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and hosts the Baltimore Science Fiction Society's Dangerous Voices Variety Hour reading series.[7]
Writing
Pinsker says her writing is heavily influenced by the science fiction and literary fiction which filled her parents' home,[6] adding she is one of the rare authors who read "short stories as much as novels" when she was young.[5] Among her early influences as an author were the works of Ursula K. Le Guin[6] and Kate Wilhelm.[7] Later influences on her fiction include Octavia Butler, Karen Joy Fowler, Kij Johnson, and Kelly Link.[7]
Pinsker started out publishing her short fiction in magazines such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, the Journal of Unlikely Cartography, and Fireside. Anthologies containing her stories include Long Hidden, How to Live on Other Planets, Queers Destroy Science Fiction,[8] and Whose Future is It?.[9] Among the collections of the "year's best" stories which include her stories are The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 2, Year's Best Weird Fiction Vol 2, Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015, The Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction and The Year's Best Military and Adventure Fiction 2015.[8]
In 2019, her debut novel A Song for a New Day was published. The novel follows the life of a musician in a future where pandemics and terrorism makes public events such as concerts illegal. In 2020, it won the Nebula Award for Best Novel of 2019.[1]
Pinsker's fiction has been called "thoughtful, subtle",[10] "creepy"[11] and "dreamlike".[12] Speaking of her fiction, Pinsker says "It is a good time to be someone who has something to say about a group or a personal experience that hasn't been touched on before. Science fiction looks at the world through a slightly different lens, so it's fun to put that lens onto new experiences."[13]
Awards
Pinsker has been nominated nine times for the Nebula Award, winning in the categories of Best Novel[1] and Best Novelette (twice)[3] as well as Best Short Story.[14] For "Two Truths and a Lie" she was afforded the Hugo Award in the category of Best Novelette in addition to the Nebula Award for the corresponding category, respectively, and in which she came 2nd place in the Locus Awards. She has also won the Philip K. Dick Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award along with being a five-time finalist for the Hugo through other works and a finalist for the World Fantasy and Otherwise Awards.
Source: [15]
Additionally,
- "No Lonely Seafarer" (short story in Lightspeed, Sept. 2014) selected as an honorable mention for the 2014 Otherwise Award.
Bibliography
Novels
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Chapbook form
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Short story collections
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Short fiction
| Year | Title[25] | First published | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | "Queen for a Day" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |
| "Smashing Bottles" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Broken Stones" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Twenty Ways the Desert Could Kill You" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "The Ants Go Marching" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| 2013 | "A Beastly Game" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |
| "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Join Our Team of Time Travel Professionals" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| Excerpted Electronic Archives from the Founding of the Demon Pitted Track Roller Derby Association | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| 2014 | "Monsters, Beneath the Bed and Otherwise" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |
| "The Transdimensional Horsemaster Rabbis of Mpumalanga Province" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "They Sent Runners Out" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Headlong" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "There Will Be One Vacant Chair" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "How a Map Works" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "The Low Hum of Her" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "No Lonely Seafarer" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Notes To My Past And/Or Alternate Selves" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| 2015 | "Songs in the Key of You" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |
| "Beauty & the Baby Beast" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "When the Circus Lights Down" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Last Thursday at Supervillain Supply Depot" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Remembery Day" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Today's Smarthouse in Love" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Our Lady of the Open Road" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "In the Dawns Between Hours" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Pay Attention" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "And We Were Left Darkling" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "What Wags the World" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| 2016 | "Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |
| "The Mountains His Crown | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Left the Century to Sit Unmoved" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Clearance" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Down Beneath the Bridge Yet Unbuilt" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Talking to Dead People" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Under One Roof" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "A Song Transmuted" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| 2017 | "The Ones Who Know Where They Are Going | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |
| "And Then There Were (N-One)" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "The Smoke Means It's Working | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Wind Will Rove" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Remember This for Me" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| 2018 | "The Court Magician" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |
| "Do As I Do, Sing As I Sing" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "I Frequently Hear Music in the Very Heart of Noise" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Escape from Caring Seasons" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Lost and Found" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| 2019 | "That Our Flag Was Still There" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |
| "The Narwhal" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Everything is Closed Today" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| 2020 | "La Mer Donne" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |
| "Bigger Fish" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Notice" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Two Truths and a Lie" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| "Tru Luv" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||
| 2021 | "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |
| "A Better Way of Saying" | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "2019 Nebula Awards Winners" Locus Magazine, May 30, 2020.
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "'People Want These Stories': Women Win Big At The Nebula Awards" by K. Tempest Bradford. NPR, May 16, 2016.
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Sarah Pinsker Interview – Award Winning Short Story Author" by Jean Marie Ward, Buzzy Mag, February 20, 2015.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Destroying Science Fiction: An Interview with Nebula Award Winning Writer, Sarah Pinsker" by Michael B. Tager, What Weekly, September 22, 2016.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Interview with Sarah Pinsker" by Andrea Johnson, Apex Magazine, May 5, 2015.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Summary Bibliography: Sarah Pinsker, ISFDB. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
- ↑ "Sarah Pinsker" in Cellarius Stories, Volume 1. Cellarius, Ed., New York: 2018, ISBN 978-1-949688-02-3. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
- ↑ "2016 in Review" by Rachel Swirsky, Locus Magazine, February 2017, page 33.
- ↑ "Interview: Sarah Pinsker" by Deborah Stanish, Uncanny Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2016
- ↑ Gardnerspace: A Short Fiction Column" by Gardner Dozois, Locus Magazine, May 2016, page 12.
- ↑ "Changing the face of diversity in Canadian comics and sci-fi" by Samia Madwar, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, August 30, 2016.
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- ↑ "2014 Campbell and Sturgeon Award Winners" Locus Magazine, June 10, 2014.
- ↑ Award summary for Sarah Pinsker, ISFDB. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
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- ↑ 2018 Hugo Award Finalists Announced, at Tor.com; published March 31, 2018. Retrieved March 31, 2018
- ↑ 2017 Nebula Award Finalists Announced!, at Science Fiction Writers of America; published February 20, 2018. Retrieved March 31, 2018
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- ↑ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
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