Tom Crosshill

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Toms Kreicbergs
Latvian author Tom Crosshill at the 75th Worldcon in Helsinki, Finland, in August 2017.
Latvian author Tom Crosshill at the 75th Worldcon in Helsinki, Finland, in August 2017.
BornRiga, Latvia
Pen nameTom Crosshill
OccupationAuthor
Genrespeculative fiction
Website
www.tomcrosshill.com

Tom Crosshill (real name Toms Kreicbergs) is a Latvian author of speculative and literary fiction,[1] active since 2010.[2]

Biography[]

Kreicbergs was raised in Riga, Latvia, where he learned English at an early age to read American speculative fiction in its original language. He studied physics at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, and later lived in New York and Iowa before returning to his native Latvia.[1]

Literary career[]

Crosshill honed his craft at the Del Rey Online Writing Workshop in the late 1990s and was later a member of the Altered Fluid writers' group in New York and attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.[1]

Aliette de Bodard (left) and Crosshill at Finncon 2013 in Helsinki, Finland

His work has appeared in various periodicals, podcasts and anthologies, including The Baltic Atlas, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, Lightspeed, Nebula Awards Showcase 2016, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Sybil's Garage, and Writers of the Future Volume XXVI.[2][1]

Recognition[]

Two of Crosshill's stories, "Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son" and "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes," have been nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story; one, "The Magician and Laplace's Demon," has been nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette'.[2][1] His work has also been nominated for the WSFA Small Press Award and the Annual Latvian Literary Award; he won the Writers of the Future Contest in 2009 and the European Science Fiction Society Award for Best Author in 2016.[1]

Bibliography[]

Novels[]

  • The Cat King of Havana (2016)
  • The Cattle Express: A Tale of Wall Street and Siberia (2016)

Collections[]

  • Fragmentation: A Collection

Chapbooks[]

  • Frammentazione, o diecimila arrivederci (2015; Italian translation of "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes")

Short fiction[]

  • "To Be Alone Again" (2010)
  • "Waiting for Number Five" (2010)
  • "Thinking Woman's Crop of Fools" (2010)
  • "Seeing Double" (2010)
  • "Express to Paris by Dragon First Class" (2010)
  • "Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son" (2011)
  • "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes" (2012)
  • "Bearslayer and the Black Knight" (2012)
  • "A Well-Adjusted Man" (2012)
  • "The Magician and Laplace's Demon" (2014)
  • "The Dark City Luminous" (2016)

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Tom Crosshill. "About Tom."
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Tom Crosshill at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

External links[]

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