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Mary Rickert, known as M. Rickert (born December 11, 1959, in Port Washington, Wisconsin), is an American writer of fantasy fiction. Many of her stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her first collection, Map of Dreams, was published by Golden Gryphon Press in 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 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and an International Horror Guild Award, and won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.[1] Map of Dreams won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection and the 2007 Crawford Award, and the collection's title story was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. On November 10, 2015, Small Beer Press will 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. ISBN 978-1402297120.
- The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie. Undertow Publications. 2021. ISBN 978-1988964324.
Short fiction
edit- Collections
| Year | Title | Identifiers | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Map of Dreams | ISBN 1930846444 | 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 | ISBN 1930846657 | 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 | ISBN 978-1618731104 | 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- 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story for Journey into the Kingdom[2]
- 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection for Map of Dreams[2]
- 2007 Crawford Award for Map of Dreams[2]
- 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction “The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece”.
References
edit- ^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on 2010-12-01. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.
- ^ a b c "Mary Rickert". The Locus Index to SF Awards. Locus Magazine. Archived from the original on 2014-03-24. Retrieved 2014-04-27.
External links
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- M. Rickert at the Internet 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 - About Map of Dreams