Mary A. Turzillo

Writer and poet

Other news: 

• Read Mary's tribute to Philip José Farmer, with photo.
• "Chocolate Kittens from Mars" is available in Space and Time: the Magazine of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction. #107, Summer 2009.
• "Scout" appeared in George Scithers' purr-inducing feline fiction anthology, Cat Tales, Wildside, September 2008. It also appears in the Eurocon 2009 souvenir book, The Deep Space Traveler's Guide.
• Two of the poems in Your Cat and Other Space Aliens ("We Made Poetry" and "Snow after False Spring Again") appear in The Rhysling Anthology 2008.
• "Matchbook," also from Your Cat and Other Space Aliens, was selected for Moving Minds: the Verse and Vision Project which features poetry on Cleveland RTA busses.
• Ewaipanoma, my novelette of alien contact in the age of Elizabeth, is now out from Sam's Dot.
• "Bottle Babies" (little story about Williams Syndrome and bonsai babies) is now available for your listening shudders at www.pseudopod.org.
• "Digging up Galileo" appeared on New Verse News on January 30 (Galileo's birthday).

Links

• See my entry in the Field Guide to NEO Poets
• Read my interview on Genrewonk by S. Andrew Swann
• Read the Interview with Mary on the Nebula site
• My Wikipedia page

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.

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.

Cover for Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, 2007 ......... Cover for Dragon Soup, 2008
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Mary A. Turzillo
Photo by Mike Benveniste 2003

The Nebula

Photos of Mary A. Turzillo at the Nebula Ceremony

"Mars Is No Place for Children" is now available in electronic form from Fictionwise.com.

Photos

Mary with Anne McCaffrey at the Nebulas in 2005.

Photos by Geoffrey A. Landis

• More photos of Mary A. Turzillo.
• Our cats Lurker and Sam

Mary in Edinburgh, with Robert Jack and Nick Underwood, (2/3 of) the cast of the Theatre Modo production of Ubu, performing at the Festival Fringe, August 2005.

Bibliography

• Bibliography of science-fiction stories by Mary Turzillo
• Mary A. Turzillo bibliography compiled by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Or, check the Locus Index

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 José 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.

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Click here to buy some of Mary Turzillo's stories in electronic form from Fictionwise.

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