Karin Lowachee

Karin Lowachee is a Guyanese-born Canadian author of speculative fiction.^[1]

Lowachee is the author of four novels, Warchild (2002), Burndive (2003), Cagebird (2005) and (2010). Warchild, which uses second-person point of view for the first several chapters of the novel, won the Warner Aspect First Novel Award.^[2] Cagebird won the 2006 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards^[3] and the Prix Aurora Award,^[4] and was a finalist for the 2005 Philip K. Dick Award. Her fourth novel, The Gaslight Dogs, was released in April 2010.^[5]

Bibliography[]

Novels[]

• Warchild (2002)
• Burndive (2003)
• Cagebird (2005)
• (2010)

Short stories[]

• "Culture Shock," ON SPEC: The Canadian Magazine of Speculative Writing (1994)
• "The Forgotten Ones," So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy (2004), edited by Uppinder Mehan & Nalo Hopkinson
• "This Ink Feels Like Sorrow," Mythspring: From the Lyrics & Legends of Canada (2006), edited by Genevieve Kierans & Julie E. Czerneda
• "Nomad," Armored (2012), edited by John Joseph Adams
• "The Bleach," When the Villain Comes Home (2012), edited by Gabrielle Harbowy & Ed Greenwood
• "Enemy States," War Stories: New Military Science Fiction (2014), edited by and

Awards[]

• Warner Aspect First Novel Award, 2002
• Prix Aurora Awards, Best Novel in English, 2006
• Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, Best Novel, 2006
• Shortlisted for a 2018 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, for her short story Meridian.^[6]

See also[]

• List of Canadian writers

References[]

External links[]

• Official site
• Interview at Clarkesworld Magazine September 2010
• Interview at SF Site
• Interview with Samantha Ling
• Interview
• Karin Lowachee at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database