Will Shetterly


Will Shetterly is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction best known for his novel Dogland. The novel is inspired by his childhood at the tourist attraction Dog Land owned by his parents. He won the Minnesota Book Award for Fantasy & Science Fiction for his novel Elsewhere, and was a finalist with Nevernever ; both books are set in Terri Windling's The Borderland Series shared universe. He has also written short stories for various Borderland anthologies.

Biography

Shetterly is married to the author Emma Bull. The couple lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and were both members of the writing group The Scribblies, which also included, Pamela Dean, Kara Dalkey, Nate Bucklin, Patricia Wrede, and Steven Brust. Shetterly and Bull created and edited the Liavek shared universe anthologies.
Shetterly created the comic book character Captain Confederacy, played a small role in the film Toxic Zombies, and ran for Minnesota [gubernatorial election, 1994|governor of Minnesota] in 1994 on the Grassroots Party ticket.
In 2009, he donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.

Short stories

  • "Bound Things"
  • "A Happy Birthday"
  • "Six Days Outside the Year"
  • "Nevernever"
  • "Time Travel, the Artifact, and a Significant Historical Personage"
  • "Danceland"
  • "The Princess Who Kicked Butt"
  • "Oldthings"
  • "Brian and the Aliens",
  • "Dream Catcher"
  • "Taken He Cannot Be"
  • "Secret Identity]"
  • "Splatter"
  • "Little Red and the Big Bad"
  • "The People Who Owned the Bible"
  • "Kasim's Haj"

Novels

  • Cats Have No Lord
  • Witch Blood
  • The Tangled Lands
  • Elsewhere
  • Nevernever
  • Dogland
  • Chimera
  • Thor's Hammer
  • The Gospel of the Knife
  • ''Midnight Girl''

Collection

Anthology series

Nonfiction

  • ''How to make a Social Justice Warrior: On identitarianism, intersectionality, mobbing, racefail, and failfans 2005-2014''

Awards

He won the Minnesota Book Award for Fantasy & Science Fiction for his novel Elsewhere, and was nominated for the 2008 World Fantasy Award for his novel, The Gospel of the Knife.