M. Rickert
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Mary Rickert | |
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| Born | December 11, 1959 |
| Pen name | M. Rickert |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
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.
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][2] Map of Dreams won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection[2] and the 2007 Crawford Award, and the collection's title story was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.[1][3] Her "Holiday" collection was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2011.[3] The short story “The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece” won a Shirley Jackson Award in 2012.[1]
On November 10, 2015, Small Beer Press published 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. Both the collection and novella "The Mothers of Voorhisville" were nominated for a World Fantasy Award.[3]
Bibliography
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Novels
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Short fiction
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| Year | Title | Identifiers | Publisher | Notes |
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| 2006 | Map of Dreams | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | 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 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | 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 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | 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 |
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| "The Girl Who Ate Butterflies" | 1999 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | |
| "Angel Face" | 2000 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | |
| "Moorina" | 2001 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | ||
| "Journey into the Kingdom" | 2006 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | ||
| "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account" | 2008 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | |
| "Evergreen" | 2019 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | ||
| "Another F*cken Fairy Tale" | 2020 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | ||
| "Last Night at the Fair" | 2020 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
Awards
[edit | edit source]- 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story for Journey into the Kingdom[4]
- 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection for Map of Dreams[4]
- 2007 Crawford Award for Map of Dreams[4]
- 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction “The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece”
- 2015 Locus Award for first novel The Memory Garden[1]
References
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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
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- 1959 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American short story writers
- American fantasy writers
- American women short story writers
- People from Port Washington, Wisconsin
- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction people
- American women science fiction and fantasy writers
- World Fantasy Award–winning writers
- Novelists from Wisconsin
- 21st-century American women novelists