Elizabeth Hand

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Elizabeth Hand (born March 29, 1957) is an American writer.

Life and career

Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She studied drama and anthropology at the Catholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand has lived in coastal Maine, the setting for many of her stories, and as of 2000 lives in Lincolnville.[1] She also lives part-time in Camden Town, London which has been the setting for Mortal Love and the short story "Cleopatra Brimstone".

Hand's first published story, "Prince of Flowers", appeared in 1988 in The Twilight Zone Magazine,[2][3] and her first novel, Winterlong, was published in 1990. With Paul Witcover, she created and wrote DC Comics' 1990s cult series Anima.[4] Hand's other works include Aestival Tide (1992); Icarus Descending (1993); Waking the Moon (1994), which won the Tiptree Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award; the post-apocalyptic novel Glimmering (1997); contemporary fantasy Black Light (1999), a New York Times Notable Book; the historical fantasy Mortal Love (2004), a Washington Post Notable Book; the psychological thriller Generation Loss (2007), and the World Fantasy Award-winning "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon". Her story collections are Last Summer at Mars Hill (1998) (which includes the Nebula and World Fantasy award-winning title novella); Bibliomancy (2002), winner of the World Fantasy Award;[5] and Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories, which includes the Nebula Award-winning "Echo" (2006). Mortal Love was also shortlisted for the 2005 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.

Among Hand's other recent short fiction, "Pavane for a Prince of the Air" (2002) and "Cleopatra Brimstone" (2001) won International Horror Guild Awards.[6] Most recently, she won the Shirley Jackson Award for Generation Loss and the World Fantasy Award in 2008 for Illyria,[5] and the Inkpot Award in 2018.[7]

She also writes movie and television spin-offs, including Star Wars tie-in novels and novelizations of such films as The X-Files and 12 Monkeys. She contributed a Bride of Frankenstein novel to the recent series of classic movie monster novels published by Dark Horse Comics.

One of Hand's themes from the Winterlong saga is the remorseless exploitation of animal and plant species to create what she calls "geneslaves." Examples include a three-hundred-year-old genetically reconstructed and cerebrally augmented Basilosaurus by the name of Zalophus; the aardmen, hybrids of dog and man; hydrapithecenes, human-fish or human-cuttlefish hybrids somewhat resembling Davy Jones and his crew from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series; and sagittals, whelks genetically engineered to be worn as a bracelet and, when its host feels threatened or agitated, extrude a spine laced with a deadly neurotoxin.

Hand is a longtime reviewer and critic for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Review, Salon, and Village Voice, among others. She also writes a regular review column for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Bibliography

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Novels

Cass Neary Crime Novels

Star Wars Expanded Universe

Adaptations

Short fiction

Collections
Stories

(Uncollected)

  • 1998 The Darcy Bee
  • 2003 The Girl With No Name
  • 2004 The Poet and the Inkmaker's Daughter
  • 2006 From Mortal Love
  • 2018 Farrow Street
  • 2021 For Sale by Owner
  • 2023 The Seventh Bride, or Female Curiosity

Awards

Awards for Elizabeth Hand
Work Year & Award Category Result Ref.
2018 Inkpot Award - Template:Won
Winterlong 1990 Philip K. Dick Award - Template:Nominated
1991 Locus Award First Novel Template:Nominated [9]
Snow on Sugar Mountain 1992 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated
Æstival Tide 1992 Philip K. Dick Award - Template:Nominated
1993 Locus Award SF Novel Template:Nominated
In the Month of Athyr 1993 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated
Icarus Descending 1993 Philip K. Dick Award - Template:Nominated
The Erl-King 1994 World Fantasy Award Novella Template:Nominated
Waking the Moon 1995 World Fantasy Award Novel Template:Nominated
1995 Otherwise Award - Template:Won
1996 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Template:Nominated
1996 Mythopoeic Awards Adult Literature Template:Won
Glimmering 1998 Locus Award SF Novel Template:Nominated
1998 Arthur C. Clarke Award - Template:CFinalist
Last Summer at Mars Hill 1995 Locus Award Novella Template:Nominated
1995 HOMer Award Novella Template:Nominated [10]
1995 World Fantasy Award Novella Template:Won
1996 Nebula Award Novella Template:Won
Last Summer at Mars Hill (Collection) 1999 World Fantasy Award Collection Template:Nominated
1999 Locus Award Collection Template:Nominated
Black Light 2000 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Template:Nominated
Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol 2001 World Fantasy Award Novella Template:Nominated
2001 Locus Award Novella Template:Nominated
Cleopatra Brimstone 2001 International Horror Guild Award Long Fiction Template:Won [11]
2002 World Fantasy Award Novella Template:Nominated
2002 Locus Award Novella Template:Nominated
Pavane for a Prince of the Air 2002 International Horror Guild Award Intermediate Form Template:Won
2003 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated
The Least Trumps 2003 Locus Award Novella Template:Nominated
2003 World Fantasy Award Novella Template:Nominated
Bibliomancy 2003 International Horror Guild Award Collection Template:Nominated
2003 Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection Template:Nominated
2004 World Fantasy Award Collection Template:Won
2004 Locus Award Collection Template:Nominated
Mortal Love 2004 International Horror Guild Award Novel Template:Nominated
2005 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Template:Nominated
2005 Mythopoeic Awards Adult Literature Template:Nominated
Wonderwall 2005 Locus Award Short Story Template:Nominated
Calypso in Berlin 2006 Locus Award Short Story Template:Nominated
Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories 2007 Locus Award Collection Template:Nominated
The Saffron Gatherers 2007 Locus Award Short Story Template:Nominated
Generation Lost 2007 International Horror Guild Award Novel Template:Nominated [12]
2007 Believer Book Award - Template:Nominated
2008 Shirley Jackson Award Novel Template:Won
Echo 2007 Nebula Award Short Story Template:Won
Illyria 2008 Shirley Jackson Award Novella Template:Nominated [13]
2008 Locus Award Novella Template:Nominated
2008 World Fantasy Award Novella Template:Won
Winter's Wife 2008 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated
The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon 2011 Locus Award Novella Template:Nominated
2011 World Fantasy Award Novella Template:Won
2011 Hugo Award Novella Template:Nominated
2011 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science Fiction 2nd Place [14]
Near Zennor 2012 Shirley Jackson Award Novella Template:Won
2012 Locus Award Novella Template:Nominated
2012 World Fantasy Award Novella Template:Nominated
2012 British Fantasy Award Novella Template:Nominated
Erranty: Strange Stories 2012 Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection Template:Nominated
2013 Shirley Jackson Award Collection Template:Nominated
2013 Locus Award Collection Template:Nominated
Radiant Days 2013 Locus Award Young Adult Book Template:Nominated
Wylding Hall 2016 Shirley Jackson Award Novella Template:Won
2016 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Template:Nominated
Hard Light 2016 Bram Stoker Award Novel Template:Nominated
Fire 2018 Locus Award Short Story Template:Nominated
Curious Toys 2020 Shirley Jackson Award Novel Template:Nominated [15]
2020 Locus Award Horror Novel Template:Nominated
The Book of Lamps and Banners 2021 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Template:Nominated [16]
For Sale by Owner 2022 World Fantasy Award Novella Template:Nominated
2022 Locus Award Novelette Template:Nominated
The Best of Elizabeth Hand 2022 Locus Award Collection Template:Nominated
A Haunting on the Hill 2023 The Dracula Society Children of the Night Award Template:Nominated [17]
2024 Locus Award Horror Novel Template:Nominated
2024 Shirley Jackson Award Special Award Template:Won [18]

Book reviews

Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
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Footnotes

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External links

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  1. ↑ Elizabeth Hand Biography - life, family, children, parents, name, story, history, mother, young, book - Newsmakers Cumulation Retrieved 2017-04-28.
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  9. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards
  10. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/HOMer_Awards_1995
  11. ↑ https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html
  12. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?26+2007
  13. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2008
  14. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?41+2011
  15. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2020
  16. ↑ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?28+2021
  17. ↑ https://thedraculasociety.org.uk/the-children-of-the-night-award.html
  18. ↑ https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2024
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