Brooke Bolander


Brooke Bolander is an American author of speculative fiction.

Biography

Bolander attended the University of Leicester, studying History and Archaeology, and is a graduate of the 2011 Clarion Workshop.

Literary career

Bolander's work, including both short fiction and essays, has been published in venues such as Lightspeed, Uncanny Magazine, and Strange Horizons.
Her novelette "And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead", first published in Lightspeed, was a finalist for the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and the 2016 Locus Award for Best Novelette. It was included in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection.
Her short story "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies", in Uncanny Magazine, was a finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
Her novelette The Only Harmless Great Thing, released by Tor, won the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 2019 Locus Award for Best Novelette, and was a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.

Awards and nominations

Fiction

Source:
  • "Trickster Blues"
  • "Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring"
  • "Tornado's Siren"
  • "Sun Dogs"
  • "The Beasts of the Earth, the Madness of Men"
  • "Darlings"
  • "The Legend of RoboNinja"
  • "Mechanical Animals"
  • "And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead"
  • "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies"
  • "The Last of the Minotaur Wives"
  • The Only Harmless Great Thing
  • "The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat"
  • "No Flight Without the Shatter"
  • Kindle
  • A Bird, a Song, a Revolution
  • A Glossary of Radicalization
  • Where the River Turns to Concrete

    Nonfiction

  • "Breaching the Gap"
  • "Introduction"
  • "The Uncanny Dinosaurs—Introduction"