Ellen Klages
Ellen Klages is an American science, science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction writer who lives in San Francisco. Her novelette "Basement Magic" won the 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. She had previously been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell awards. Her first novel, The Green Glass Sea, was published by Viking Children's Books in 2006. It won the 2007 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the New Mexico Book Award, and the Judy Looez Memorial Award. Portable Childhoods, a collection of her short fiction published by Tachyon Publications, was named a 2008 World Fantasy Award finalist. White Sands, Red Menace, the sequel to The Green Glass Sea, was published in Fall 2008 and won the New Mexico and California Book Awards. In 2010, her short story "Singing on a Star" was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. In 2018 her novella Passing Strange won the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards and was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. In 2019, her novel Out of Left Field won the Children’s History Book Prize and the Ohioana Book Award.
Biography
Ellen Janeway Klages was born in Columbus, Ohio, on July 9, 1954, and now lives in San Francisco. She holds a degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan. In 1992, she began working at the San Francisco Exploratorium, where she was selected to co-author a children's science activity book with science fiction author Pat Murphy. Murphy encouraged Klages to write her own stories as well. Her first novelette, "Time Gypsy", was published in 1999 and was a finalist for the Nebula Award and Hugo Award. She was also nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2000. Besides her writing, she also graduated from the Second City Conservatory, the Clarion South Workshop, and has served on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree Jr. Award for twenty years.Klages is also known for doing stand-up comedy and other performances as an auctioneer annually at Wiscon. The Wiscon Tiptree Auction is a fundraiser for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award; Klages also serves on the Board for the award. "At past Tiptree auctions, auctioneer/comedian Ellen Klages has auctioned off her own hair, Mary Doria Russell's brassiere, a hand-knitted uterus, a kangaroo-scrotum purse, a cherry pie, and a Xena lawn butt". Klages was a Guest of Honor at Wiscon 33.
Awards
source:Science fiction and fantasy
Collections
Portable Childhoods, short fiction collection- *"Basement Magic"
- *"Intelligent Design"
- *"The Green Glass Sea"
- *"Clip Art"
- *"Triangle"
- *"The Feed Bag"
- *"Flying Over Water"
- *"Möbius, Stripped of a Muse"
- *"Time Gypsy"
- *"Be Prepared"
- *"Travel Agency"
- *"A Taste of Summer"
- *"Ringing Up Baby"
- *"Guys Day Out"
- *"Portable Childhoods"
- *"In the House of the Seven Librarians"
- Wicked Wonders, short fiction collection
- * Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler
- * The Education of a Witch
- * Amicae Aeternum
- * Mrs. Zeno's Paradox
- * Singing on a Star
- * Hey, Presto
- * Echoes of Aurora
- * Friday Night at St. Cecilia's
- * Caligo Lane
- * Goodnight Moons
- * Gone to the Library
- * Household Management
- * Sponda the Suet Girl and the Secret of the French Pearl
- * Woodsmoke
- * The Scary Ham
- * Afterword: Why I Write Short Fiction
Novellas
- ''Passing Strange''
Novelettes
- "Time Gypsy", Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
- "Basement Magic", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2003
- "In the House of the Seven Librarians", Firebirds Rising, edited by Sharyn November
Short stories
- "Flying Over Water", Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #7
- "Triangle", Bending the Landscape: Horror, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
- "Travel Agency", Strange Horizons
- "A Taste of Summer", Black Gate #3
- "Be Prepared", The Infinite Matrix
- "Green Glass Sea", Strange Horizons
- "Intelligent Design", Strange Horizons
- "Guys Day Out", Sci Fiction
- "Ringing Up Baby", Nature
- "Friday Night at St. Cecilia's", The Coyote Road, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
- "Mrs. Zeno's Paradox", Eclipse One, edited by Jonathan Strahan
- "Echoes of Aurora", What Remains, with Geoff Ryman, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four, edited by Jonathan Strahan
- "Singing on a Star", Firebirds Soaring, edited by Sharyn November.
- "A Practical Girl", Eclipse Three: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Jonathan Strahan
- "Goodnight Moons", Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier, ed. Jonathan Strahan ; The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six, ed. Jonathan Strahan
- "The Education of a Witch", Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, ed. Jonathan Strahan
- "Amicae Aeternum", Reach for Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan
Historical fiction
The Green Glass Sea- White Sands, Red Menace
- ''Out of Left Field''