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Mary A. Turzillo


Mary A. Turzillo

Science Fiction Writer & Fencer

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Curl up with a cat and a book.
A full litter of stories: science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. All cats, every page.


My collection from Omnium Gatherum, October 2016:
Cover

paperback
e-book from Amazon


Villainous females exposed in a collaboration with Marge Simon:



Read an excerpt of this wicked witch whipping here:

Mary's recent Elgin-Award-winning collection of poetry, Lovers and Killers, is available from Dark Regions Press

cover for book "Lovers and Killers"



Read Mary's blog at LiveJournal.

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Bio

After a career as a professor of English at Kent State University, Dr. Mary A. Turzillo is now a full-time writer. In 2000, her story "Mars Is No Place for Children" won SFWA's Nebula award for best novelette. Her novel An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl was serialized in Analog in July-Nov 2004. These two works have been selected as recreational reading on the International Space Station.

Mary's Pushcart-nominated collection of poetry, Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, appeared from VanZeno Press in 2007. Her collaborative book of poetry/art, Dragon Soup, written with Marge Simon, appears from VanZeno in 2008.

Mary's collection Lovers & Killers, in addition to winning the Elgin Award, was also on the Stoker ballot and contains "The Hidden," second place winner in the Dwarf Stars award for 2012, plus two Rhysling nominees "Tohuko Tsunami," "Galatea."

cover for Your Cat & Other Space Aliens book
Cover for Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, 2007 ......... Cover for Dragon Soup, 2008
Also
available from Amazon.

Mary A. Turzillo
Photo by Mike Benveniste 2003
photo of Mary A. Turzillo, Sept. 2003


Nebula!



The Nebula

Photos of Mary A. Turzillo at the Nebula Ceremony


Photos

Mary with Anne McCaffreyMary with Anne McCaffrey at the Nebulas in 2005.

Mary A. Turzillo: Photo by Geoffrey A. Landis Mary with cat
Mary in winter.
Mary with Lurker
Photos by Geoffrey A. Landis

Bibliography

Academic Nonfiction

Under her academic alias of Professor Mary T. Brizzi, she has written numerous academic papers and journal articles, and is the author of two nonfiction books, Reader's Guide to Anne McCaffrey and Reader's Guide to Philip JosÈ Farmer, both from Starmont Press.

Clarion

In July 2001, Mary was one of the instructors at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' workshop , along with Geoffrey A. Landis, Steven Barnes, James Patrick Kelly, Kelly Link, and Pat Murphy.


Mary at the Rio Hondo Workshop
Mary Godzilla Theme Song

Email: mary@maryturzillo_dot_net

 

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