Mary A. Turzillo

Compiled March 15, 2009

Abbreviations: (TBP): To Be Published, hc: hardcover, pb: paperback, tp: trade paperback

Listing does not include reviews, newspaper columns, essays, academic papers, or non-fiction outside the SF/fantasy/horror genre

Novel:

• An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl, serialized in Analog, July-Nov 2004

Novelette Chapbook:

• Ewaipanoma,  Sam's Dot, 2008.

Collections: humor and poetry:

• Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, vanZeno, 2007
• Dragon Soup, with Marge Simon, vanZeno, 2008
• Galileo's Blindness, Bacchae Press, 1994; see under Poetry, below (available from author: maryturzillo at earthlink dot net)
• Lawn Party, Fantome Press, 1988 (no longer available)
  

Short stories:

• "Alex," F&SF, March 1992.
• "Alien Dreams," Pulphouse: the Hardback Magazine,  #11, Fall 1991.
• "American Portmanteau Theater," Scrybe Press, ed. Nathaniel Barker, TBP    
• "An Ice Place to Play," 2AM, Winter 1989. Reprinted, Braegen, December 1994, Mensa Bulletin, October 1995; Winner, Mensa 1994 NL Award.                
• "April Flowers, November Harvest," Midnight Zoo, May 1993.            
• "Arms and the Man," Interzone, April 98                        
• "Bloodtide," Xanadu II, ed. Jane Yolen/Martin Greenberg, January 1994.    
• "Bottle Babies," Dark Terrors 5, ed. Stephen Jones and  David Sutton, Gollancz/Orion, 2000, narrated on pseudopod.org, 2009        
• "By Ben Cruachan," F&SF, September 1999
• "Call for Papers,"Analog, July/August 1999    
• "Chrysoberyl," F&SF, June 98
• "Chocolate Kittens from Mars," Space and Time, upcoming
• "Crimes against Nature," Interzone, Feb. 1994.    
• "Digital Love," Infinite Matrix, April 1, 2006    
• "Eat or Be Eaten: A Love Story," Interzone, Feb. 96; to be reprinted in Yellow Submarine, ed.  André- Ruaud.    
• "Encore", SF Age, Jan./Feb. 1994.        
• "Ewaipanoma," Sam's Dot Chapbook, 2008 (see above)
• "Get with Child a Mandrake," Weird Tales, Spring 1990.
• "Harrowing Hell," Oceans of the Mind, March, 2003             
• "Jewlly, Erased," Space and Time, #77, Winter 1990.  Prelim  Nebula Ballot    
• "Kill Dance," Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine,  Spring 1990.  Reprinted in The Best of MZB's Fantasy Magazine, Vol. II, Warner Books, Nov. 95.    
• "Kings" (novelette)  Pulphouse: the Hardback Magazine IV, Spring 1989.
• "Kraken," Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1990.        
• "Lin Jee," Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stephan Dziemianowicz, Barnes & Noble, August 2000
• "Marla and the Eeler," SF Age, January 99
• "Mars Is No Place  for Children," SF Age, May 1999                
• "Mate," F&SF, February 1997
• "Milk," Aoife's Kiss,  December 2007
• "Miranda's Monster," F&SF, August 1995
• "More ways to tell if your cat is a space alien," Asimov's,  April 01.
• "Neezies," Universe Three, ed. Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber, Spring 1994.
• “Nefertiti’s Tenth Life,” Analog, November 2001    
• "Notes toward a new trait," Analog, September 1999
• "Old Treasures,"  Gold and Treasure Hunter, (with Jane Turzillo) Jan./Feb. 1993.    
• "Pride," Fast Forward 1, ed. Lou Anders, Pyr, Jan 07
• "Punctuated Romance," Electric Velocipede, Fall 2006
• "Scout," Cat Tales, ed. George Scithers, Wildside, September 2008    
• "Song against the Dark," SF Age,  Jan. 1996
• "Still Life with Crocus," The Ultimate Witch, Bryon Preiss/Dell, October 1993.
• "The Sugar," Sky Whales and Other Wonders, ed. Vera Nazarain, Norilana Press upcoming
• "The Guatemala Cure," How to Save the World, edited by Charles Sheffield, Tor Books, Sept. 95.
• "The Mandelbrot Dragon," The Ultimate Dragon, Bryon Preiss, Dell, Oct. 1995.
• "The Sleel," Interzone,  July 1992. Reprinted as "Der Schnaal" in Die Strasse nach Canderlei, ed. Wolfgang Jeschke, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, 1995.
• "Thumbkin, Caesar, Princess, and Troll" Analog, October 02    
• "Trills," Abiko Quarterly, Fall 95, #15
• "What Do I See in You?"  in Writers of the Future IV, Bridge, 1988.
• “When Gretchen Was Human,” The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women, ed. Stephen Jones & Ingrid Pitt, Carroll & Graf, 2001
• "Worm Turned," Tomorrow #4, August 1993. Reprinted  in Quando gli Alieni Invasero la Terra,  Piergiorgio Nicolazzini, ed., Editrice Nord, 1997.
• "Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads,"  The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, ed.  George Mann,  Solaris, Feb. 07    

Poetry:

• "Aesthetics of Evil," Weird Tales, Spring 1994.   
• "Anagram of the Umbrella, or," The Best of 1982: Ohio Poetry Day Contest Awards.  First Prize, Modern Sonnet.  Ohio Poetry Day Association, 1982   
• "Brit Lit One" (reprint from Icon), New Altars, Angelus Press (Avesta Blues), January 1997, reprint Goblin Fruit, Spring 2008     
• "Bubble Bubble Bubble," Star*Line, 1984.   
• “Cable Fridge,”Asimov’s, August 2001   
• "Cats Can Colonize Jupiter," Star*Line, TBP   
• "Cats Can Colonize Mars" Star*Line, TBP   
• "Cornsnake," Asimov's, February 2002   
• “Crustaceans,” Asimov’s, March 2002 (reprinted several places as "Mollusks")   
• "Cuddles," Ohio Poetry Day Award Book, October 2007   
• "Daddy Says It's Not a Dragon," Ohio Poetry Day Award Book, October 2007.   
• "Dark of the Moon," Moscon Program Book, September 1992.   
• "Dash," Tales of the Unanticipated,  #16, Spr-Sum-Fall 96
• “The Deep,” Tributaries, ed. Cyril Dostal and Jill Sell, 1998, p. 9
• "Digging up Galileo" New Verse News, January 30, 09     (www.newversenews.com)
• "Dinosaurs May Be Ancestors of More than Birds," Asimov's, August 96.   
• "Doctor Mather's Dyschronic Ward," Tales of the Unanticipated, #15, Fall, Winter 95-96.    
• “Downsizing,” Asimov’s, TBP   
• "Edward Curtis's Two Zuni Women," Dark Regions' The Year's Best Fantastic Fiction. 3:2, 1995. (Previously appeared in Ohio Poetry Day 1994 Winners)
• "Epithalamion," Asimov's, September 2005   
• "FAQ," Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Jan. 2005   
• "Flowers over Steel," Lost and Found, Ed. Meg Petersen, Plymouth College, Plymouth NH 2003   
• “For Kenneth Patchen,”  ArtCrimes, Cleveland, OH, June 1989, p. 47.    http://www.agentofchaos.com/a07_poems.html#turzillo   
• "Foreigner," 1988 Odyssey Poetry Awards, Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, Spring 1988.    
• “Foundling,” Tributaries, ed. Cyril Dostal and Jill Sell, 1997, pp. 40-42.   
• “Four Steps to the Unsaintly Fate,” ArtCrimes, Cleveland, OH, 1989, p. 60.   
• "Galileo Flies at Midnight,"  Dreams and Nightmares,  # 78, TBP   
• "Galileo's Blindness," Asimov's, July 1989.  Has been reprinted several times.   
• "Garbagesanta," Excursions: Kent State Quarterly, 1975   
• "Hamsters," Star*Line, May/June 1992.
• "The Hunter's Mothers," Asimov's, March 1998       
• “Hydrangea,” Tributaries, ed. Cyril Dostal and Jill Sell, the first of a series by Owl Walk Press in cooperation with the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, 1997, p. 39.   
• "If you loved me," Asimov's, December, 1993.   
• "Intelligent Designer," New Verse News, May 29, 2007 (www.newversenews.com)
• "Iphegenia  in Shaker Heights," Strange Horizons, November, 2006 http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20061120/turzillo-p.shtml   
• "Journey's End," with Geoff Landis and an anonymous poet, Star*Line, 25:3, May/June 2002   
• "LaBrea Tar Pits," Star*Line, Fall 2006   
• “Lawnmowers,” Paper Blossoms, Avonelle, Columbus OH, 1978.   
• "Life Goes On," Mindsparks, Moleudyne, Laurel MD, Aug. 1996 Pub Catherine Asaro, Ed. Marianne Dyson   
• "Mage and Lady," Asimov's, January 1990.   
• “Mantis,” Tributaries, ed. Cyril Dostal and Jill Sell, 1998, p. 44.
• "The Monster's Mother," Once upon a Midnight . . .  Unnameable Press, 1995   
• "More Mermaids?" Pandora,  Spring 1987.   
• "Morgaine Mourns the Loss of Lancelot," Once upon a Midnight . . .  Unnameable Press, 1995.  Reprinted in 1995 Rhysling Anthology.   
• "Mucusoids," Tales of the Unanticipated, Fall/Winter 1988. Reprinted in New Altars, Angelus Press (Avesta Blues), January 1997.
• "The Need of her Flesh," Asimov's, August 2001   
• "No Poem," Star*Line, March-April 1992     
• “On the Scarcity of Dragons,” Encore: a Quarterly of Verse and Poetic Arts, Winter 1982-3, p. 10   
• "Past Lives," Worlds of Fantasy & Horror, Summer 1994.   
• "Report,"  Asimov's, Mid-December 1989.  Reviewed and reprinted in Star*Line, October 1990.   
• "Sirens," The Harrow, 2007    http://theharrow.com/journal2007/index.php/journal/article/view/2108/525   
• "Sonnet  65,000,000 BC," POEtry, ed. Stephen Wilson, TBP.   
• "St. E's Emergency," Ev'ryman, Deciduous Press, 2001   
• "Surrogate," Star*Line, May/June 2007 & Editor's Choice for website   
• "That Look,"   Ohio Poetry Day Award Book, 2007   
• ."This Is Just to Say," Asimov's, August 96   
• "Those Quarks," Star*Line, Fall/Winter 1991.   
• "Unbound Planet," Asimov's, September 1994.   
• "Vicious trees," Goblin Fruit, October 9, 2007 http://www.goblinfruit.net/autumn07/ (includes audio file of me reading the poem)   
• "Visit to the Medicine Man," Vision Quests, Angelus Press, ed Dawn Albright & Sandra Hutchinson, October 95.   
• "Wandering Teacup" (haiku) Plain Dealer, November 10, 2008.

• Galileo's Blindness Bacchae Press 1994 chapbook  (see above)
   includes Galileo's Blindness, Report, Those Quarks, Little Gravity, If You Loved Me, Lucille, Old Fruit Peddler, Not My Mother's Dream, Please Accept, Darryl's, Milo, Saturday Night at the Poetry Zoo, Reading the Poet's Essay, Hamsters, Manhood Rite, Aesthetics of Evil, Plotting the Accident, Guatemala Earth.

• Your Cat (and Other Space Aliens), VanZeno Press 2007 (see above)
• in addition to previously published poems, Your Cat included the following previously unpublished SF poems:
  "Augmented
  "Botanist"
  "Box World"
  "Consolations of Bast"
  "Early Space Traveler Fantasies"
  "Foam Peanuts Float in Ditch"
  "Gacy"
  "Gypsy and the Snake
  "Hibiscus Island, 2034 AD"
  "Pasadena, July 4, 1997: Earth Invades Mars"
  "Signs You're in Trouble"
  "Snow after False Spring, Again"
  "Suppose Heaven"
  "The Telescope"
  "The Tyrannosaur under 81st and 7th Avenue"
  "We Made Poetry"
• Dragon Soup, VanZeno Press 2008 (see above)
• Dragon Soup included the following previously unpublished SF poems:
  "Dragons Behold the Works of Man"
  "What do Women Want?"
  "You know your Dragon's in Love When"
  "The Dragon Poet"
  "Daddy Says it's Not a Dragon"
  "Careful What you bring Home from the Animal shelter"
  "This Fortunate Universe"
  "The Maiden's Child"
  "Your Dragon Bride"
  "Another Dragon Soup"

(Selected) Non-SF poetry
• "Please Accept" Mahoning Valley Poetry Bachae Press 1993
• other poems in ArtCrimes, Icon, Wooster Daily Record, Driftwood East, and elsewhere.

Nonfiction books:

• Reader's Guide to Anne McCaffery Starmont Press Reader's Guide 1980 pb
• Phillip Jose Farmer Starmont Press Reader's Guide 1986 pb

Interviews:

• Interview of Geoffrey A. Landis Ohio Writer May-June 1992
• Interview: by Joe Dudley, Ohio Writer

Awards:

• 2000, Nebula award, best novelette ("Mars Is No Place for Children")

Award nominations:

• 1987, Writers of the Future, second place ("What Do I See in You?")
• 1996, Rhysling nomination, best poem ("Morgaine Mourns the Loss of Launcelot")
• 1997, British SF Association nomination, best short story ("Eat or Be Eaten")
• 1997, Rhysling nomination (second place) best poem ("Dash")
• 2008, Rhysling nomination "Snow after False Spring, Again" and "We Made Poetry"
• Cleveland Arts Prize nomination, 2008
• Pushcart Award nomination 2008 for Your Cat & Other Space Aliens
• Nebula nomination in Short Story category 2008 for "Pride"

Reprints in Translation:

• German "The Sleel" Strasse Nach Canderei Heyne Verlag 1994 pb
• Italian "Kraken" Millemondinverno Arnoldo Mondadori 1991
• Italian "Still Life With Crocus" 25 Storie di Magia Nera Per Adulti Arnoldo Mondadori 1996

• Other sources for bibliographic info:
  • Mary A. Turzillo bibliography compiled by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  • link to Locus index
• back to Mary Turzillo Home page