Sarah Pinsker

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Sarah Pinsker
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
Years active2012–present
Website
sarahpinsker.com

Sarah Pinsker is an American science fiction and fantasy author. A nine-time finalist for the Nebula Award, Pinsker's debut novel A Song for a New Day won the 2019 Nebula for Best Novel[1][2] while her story Our Lady of the Open Road won 2016 award for Best Novelette.[3] Her fiction has also won the Philip K. Dick Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and been a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Tiptree Awards.

Life[]

Pinsker was born in New York and lived in several places of the United States including Illinois and Texas.[4] When she was 14, her family settled in Toronto, Canada.[4] She returned to the US to attend college.[4] She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she has managed grants for a nonprofit. In addition to writing fiction she is a singer/songwriter with the band Stalking Horses[5] and has had multiple albums released through independent labels.[6] She also volunteers as director at large for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and hosts the Baltimore Science Fiction Society's Dangerous Voices Variety Hour reading series.[7]

Writing[]

Pinsker says her writing is heavily influenced by the science fiction and literary fiction which filled her parents' home,[6] adding she is one of the rare authors who read "short stories as much as novels" when she was young.[5] Among her early influences as an author were the works of Ursula K. Le Guin[6] and Kate Wilhelm.[7] Later influences on her fiction include Octavia Butler, Karen Joy Fowler, Kij Johnson, and Kelly Link.[7]

Pinsker started out publishing her short fiction in magazines such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, the Journal of Unlikely Cartography, and Fireside. Anthologies containing her stories include Long Hidden, How to Live on Other Planets, Queers Destroy Science Fiction,[8] and Whose Future is It?.[9] Among the collections of the "year's best" stories which include her stories are The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 2, Year's Best Weird Fiction Vol 2, Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015, The Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction and The Year's Best Military and Adventure Fiction 2015.[8]

In 2019, her debut novel A Song for a New Day was published. The novel follows the life of a musician in a future where pandemics and terrorism makes public events such as concerts illegal. The novel won the 2019 Nebula Award.[1]

Pinsker's fiction has been called "thoughtful, subtle",[10] "creepy"[11] and "dreamlike".[12] Speaking of her fiction, Pinsker says "It is a good time to be someone who has something to say about a group or a personal experience that hasn't been touched on before. Science fiction looks at the world through a slightly different lens, so it's fun to put that lens onto new experiences."[13]

Awards[]

Pinsker has been nominated nine times for the Nebula Award, winning in the categories of Best Novel[1] and Best Novelette.[3] She has also won the Philip K. Dick Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award along with being a four-time finalist for the Hugo and a finalist for the World Fantasy and Tiptree Awards.

Bibliography[]

Novels[]

A Song for a New Day (September 2019, Berkley Books, ISBN 9781984802583)

Short story collections[]

  • Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (2019, Small Beer Press).

Short fiction[]

Stories[24]
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
"In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" 2013 Strange Horizons, July 2013
The transdimensional horsemaster rabbis of Mpumalanga Province 2014 "The transdimensional horsemaster rabbis of Mpumalanga Province". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (2): 68–79. Feb 2014.
"A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide" 2014 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March–April 2014
The low hum of her 2014 "The low hum of her". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (8): 70–73. August 2014.
"Our Lady of the Open Road" 2015 Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2015
"Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea", (2016)[15] 2016 Lightspeed, February 2016
"And Then There Were (N-One)" 2017 Uncanny Magazine, March–April 2017
"Lost and Found" 2018 Whose Future Is It?: Cellarius Stories, Volume I

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "2019 Nebula Awards Winners" Locus Magazine, May 30, 2020.
  2. ^ "Announcing the 2019 Nebula Awards Winners!". Tor.com. May 30, 2020.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "'People Want These Stories': Women Win Big At The Nebula Awards" by K. Tempest Bradford. National Public Radio, May 16, 2016.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Sarah Pinsker: Personal Collisions". Locus Online. 21 October 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "Sarah Pinsker Interview – Award Winning Short Story Author" by Jean Marie Ward, Buzzy Mag, February 20, 2015.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Destroying Science Fiction: An Interview with Nebula Award Winning Writer, Sarah Pinsker" by Michael B. Tager, What Weekly, Sept. 22, 2016.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Interview with Sarah Pinsker" by Andrea Johnson, Apex Magazine, May 5, 2015.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Summary Bibliography: Sarah Pinsker, ISFDB, accessed 6/10/2020.
  9. ^ "Sarah Pinsker" in Cellarius Stories, Volume 1. Cellarius, Ed., New York: 2018, ISBN 978-1-949688-02-3, accessed 17 December 2018.
  10. ^ "2016 in Review" by Rachel Swirsky, Locus Magazine, February 2017, page 33.
  11. ^ "Interview: Sarah Pinsker" by Deborah Stanish, Uncanny Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2016
  12. ^ Gardnerspace: A Short Fiction Column" by Gardner Dozois, Locus Magazine, May 2016, page 12.
  13. ^ "Changing the face of diversity in Canadian comics and sci-fi" by Samia Madwar, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, August 30, 2016.
  14. ^ "2014 Campbell and Sturgeon Award Winners" Locus Magazine, June 10, 2014.
  15. ^ Jump up to: a b Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, Sarah Pinsker, Lightspeed, February 2016, accessed 17 December 2018.
  16. ^ Award summary for Sarah Pinsker, ISFDB, accessed March 4, 2017.
  17. ^ "SFWA Announces 2016 Nebula, Norton, and Bradbury Award Nominees! – The Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
  18. ^ 2017 Nebula Award Finalists Announced!, at Science Fiction Writers of America; published February 20, 2018; retrieved March 31, 2018
  19. ^ 2018 Hugo Award Finalists Announced, at Tor.com; published March 31, 2018; retrieved March 31, 2018
  20. ^ "World Fantasy Awards℠ 2019 | World Fantasy Convention". Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  21. ^ "Announcing the 2019 Nebula Awards Winners!". . May 30, 2020.
  22. ^ "SFWA Announces 56th Annual Nebula Award Winners". The Nebula Awards. June 6, 2021. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  23. ^ "2021 Hugo Awards". Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  24. ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.

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