Susan Palwick

Susan Palwick
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Born	1960 (age 65–66) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University Yale University
Notable awards	Crawford Award (1993) Alex Award (2006)

Susan Palwick (born 1960 in New York City) is an American writer and associate professor emerita of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She began her professional career by publishing "The Woman Who Saved the World" for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1985.

Raised in northern New Jersey, Palwick attended Princeton University, where she studied fiction writing with novelist Stephen Koch, and she holds a doctoral degree from Yale. In the 1980s, she was an editor of The Little Magazine and then helped found The New York Review of Science Fiction, to which she contributed several reviews and essays. Although she is not a prolific author, Palwick's work has received multiple awards, including the Rhysling Award (in 1986) for her poem "The Neighbor's Wife". She won the Crawford Award for best first novel with Flying in Place in 1993, and the Alex Award in 2006 for her second novel, The Necessary Beggar. Her third novel, Shelter, was published by Tor in 2007. Another book, The Fate of Mice (a collection of short stories), has also been published by Tachyon Publications.

Susan Palwick is a practicing Episcopalian and lay preacher. For many years, she wrote a column for the Church Health Center's website on faith and health, HopeandHealing.org. As of 2019, she worked as a hospital chaplain in Reno.

Awards

Year	Nominee	Award		Result	Ref
1986	"The Neighbor's Wife"	Rhysling Award	Short Poem	Won
1987	"Elephant	Theodore Sturgeon Award	—	Shortlisted
1993	Flying in Place	Crawford Award	—	Won
		John W. Campbell Award Award	—	Honorable Mention
		Locus Award	First Novel	Nominated
			Fantasy Novel	Nominated
2006	The Necessary Beggar	Alex Award	—	Won
2007		Mythopoeic Award	Adult Literature	Shortlisted
2015	"Windows"	Asimov's Readers' Poll	Short Story	Shortlisted
2020	All Worlds Are Real	Philip K. Dick Award	—	Shortlisted
2023	"Sparrows"	Asimov's Readers' Poll	Short Story	Shortlisted

Bibliography

Short fiction

Year	Title	First published	Notes
1985	"The Woman Who Saved the World"
1996	"GI Jesus"
1997	"Aïda in the Park"
2000	"Wood and Water"
2001	"Gestella"
2013	"Homecoming"
	"Hhasalin"
2014	"Windows"
2018	"Recoveries"
2022	"The Long View"

External links

• Susan Palwick's blog
• Susan Palwick at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Review of The Fate of Mice, by Jo Walton
• Review of Shelter, by Jo Walton