Michaela Roessner
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Biography
Born in San Francisco, she was raised in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Thailand, and Oregon. Trained as a visual artist, she holds a BFA in Ceramics from the California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA in Painting from Lone Mountain College, and exhibits under the name M. M. Roessner-Herman.[2] In 1989, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.[3]
Her first novel, Walkabout Woman, was a 1989 nominee for the Mythopoeic Award,[4] and won the Crawford Award.[5] She has also published the science fiction novel Vanishing Point and number of short stories, published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, SciFiction, Omni Online, Strange Plasma, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and elsewhere. She is also the author of two historical novels, The Stars Dispose (1997) and The Stars Compel (1999), about Catherine de Medici. She lives in southern California.[2]
She has taught at the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University and the Gotham Writers' Workshop.[6]
Awards
Bibliography
- Walkabout Woman (1988)
- Vanishing Point (1993)[7]
- The Stars Dispose (1997)
- The Stars Compel (1999)
References
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External links
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- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- American fantasy writers
- American science fiction writers
- American women novelists
- John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer winners
- University of San Francisco alumni
- Novelists from San Francisco
- American women science fiction and fantasy writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women