M. Rickert

Mary Rickert, known as M. Rickert (born December 11, 1959, in Port Washington, Wisconsin), is an American writer of fantasy fiction. Many of her stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her first collection, Map of Dreams, was published by Golden Gryphon Press in 2006; her second collection, Holiday, appeared in 2010 from the same publisher. She lives in Wisconsin.

Rickert's fiction has won or been nominated for several major awards. "Journey into the Kingdom" was nominated for the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and an International Horror Guild Award, and won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. Map of Dreams won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection and the 2007 Crawford Award, and the collection's title story was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. On November 10, 2015, Small Beer Press will publish Rickert's third collection, You Have Never Been Here, containing selected stories from her first two collections, as well as three new stories, one of them a novella.

Bibliography

Short fiction

Collections

Year	Title	Identifiers	Publisher	Notes
2006	Map of Dreams	Template:ISBN	Golden Gryphon Press	Contents: "Map of Dreams", "Dreams: Dreaming of the Sun", "Leda", "Cold Fires", "Angel Face", "Night Blossoms", "Nightmares: Feeding the Beast", "Bread and Bombs", "Art Is Not a Violent Subject", "Anyway", "A Very Little Madness Goes a Long Way", "Waking: What I Saw, When I Looked", "The Girl Who Ate Butterflies", "Many Voices", "More Beautiful Than You", "Peace on Suburbia", "Rising: Flight", "Moorina of the Seals", "The Harrowing", "The Super Hero Saves the World", "The Chambered Fruit"
2010	Holiday	Template:ISBN	Golden Gryphon Press	Contents: "Holiday", "Memoir of a Deer Woman", "Journey into the Kingdom", "The Machine", "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account", "Don't Ask", "Traitor", "Was She Wicked? Was She Good?", "You Have Never Been Here", "War is Beautiful", "The Christmas Witch"
2015	You Have Never Been Here	Template:ISBN	Small Beer Press	Contents: "Memoir of a Deer Woman", "Journey into the Kingdom", "The Shipbuilder", "Cold Fires", "The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece", "The Christmas Witch", "Holiday", "The Chambered Fruit", "The Mothers of Voorhisville", "You Have Never Been Here"

List of stories

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
"The Girl Who Ate Butterflies"	1999
"Angel Face"	2000
"Moorina"	2001
"Journey into the Kingdom"	2006
"Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account"	2008
"Evergreen"	2019
"Another F*cken Fairy Tale"	2020
"Last Night at the Fair"	2020

Awards

• 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story for Journey into the Kingdom
• 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection for Map of Dreams
• 2007 Crawford Award for Map of Dreams
• 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction “The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece”.

External links

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• An interview with M. Rickert
• Another brief interview
• A third interview
• Online texts of Rickert's stories "Anyway" and "The Girl Who Ate Butterflies"
• Golden Gryphon Press official site - About Map of Dreams