Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear

Bear at Eurocon/Swecon in 2011
Born Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky
(1971-09-22) September 22, 1971
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Alma mater The University of Connecticut
Genre Speculative fiction
Notable works Hammered
Notable awards 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, 2006 Locus Award for Best First Novel, 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
Website
elizabethbear.com

Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (born September 22, 1971) is an American author who works primarily in speculative fiction genres, writing under the name Elizabeth Bear. She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Tideline," and the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "Shoggoths in Bloom."[1] She is one of only five writers who have gone on to win multiple Hugo Awards for fiction after winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (the others being C. J. Cherryh, Orson Scott Card, Spider Robinson, and Ted Chiang).

Life and career

Bear is of Ukrainian and Swedish ancestry;[2] some of her late ancestors claim to be of Viking heritage.

A native of Hartford, Connecticut, she has been a media industry professional, a stablehand, a fluff-page reporter, a maintainer of microbiology procedure manuals for a 1,000-bed inner-city hospital, a typesetter and layout editor, a traffic manager for an import-export business, and "the girl who makes the donuts at The Whole Donut at three A.M."

She lived in Las Vegas, Nevada for some time (the setting for the short stories "One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King", "Follow Me Light", and "This Tragic Glass"), but she returned to Connecticut in January 2006.

Her first novel Hammered was published in January 2005 and was followed by Scardown in July and Worldwired in November of the same year. The trilogy features Canadian Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey, who is also the main character in the short story "Gone to Flowers". Hammered won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2006.

The Chains That You Refuse, a collection of her short fiction, was published May 2006 by Night Shade Books. Blood and Iron, the first book in the fantasy series entitled "The Promethean Age", debuted June 27, 2006. She is also a coauthor of the ongoing Shadow Unit website/pseudo-TV series.

In 2008, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.[3]

She is an instructor at the Viable Paradise writer's workshop and has taught at Clarion West Writers Workshop.

The opening quote in Criminal Minds episode "Lauren" (6.18) was a direct quote of the second and third lines of Bear's book Seven for a Secret: "The secret to lying is to believe with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more than lying to another."

She is one of the regular panelists on podcast SF Squeecast, which won the 2012 and 2013 Hugo Awards for "Best Fancast."[4]

Published works

Novels

The Jenny Casey trilogy

The Promethean Age

Jacob's Ladder trilogy

The Edda of Burdens

The Iskryne series

New Amsterdam series

Eternal Sky Trilogy

Other novels

Short story collections

Short fiction

Poetry

Essays

Reception

Annalee Newitz of io9 wrote that Bear "is famous for combining high-octane military/spy tales with eccentric and subversive subplots."[8]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "2009 Hugo Awards". www.locusmag.com. 2009-08-09.
  2. ↑ "Transcript of the Absolute Write chat with writer Elizabeth Bear. March 17, 2009". www.absolutewrite.com. 2011-05-03.
  3. ↑ "Elizabeth Bear Papers, 2005- 2011". Northern Illinois University. 2008-04-18.
  4. ↑ "Elizabeth Bear - Award Bibliography". www.isfdb.org.
  5. ↑ "Elizabeth Bear One Eyed Jack cover art and synopsis reveal". Upcoming4.me. May 2, 2013. Retrieved May 2, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Elizabeth Bear - Steles of the Sky cover art and synopsis reveal". Upcoming4.me. July 8, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
  7. ↑ Martin, George R. R. (June 19, 2014). "Not A Blog: Venus In March". GRRM.livejournal.com. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  8. ↑ Newitz, Annalee (May 6, 2008). "Environmental Fascists Fight Gun-Loving Lesbians for Alien Technology". io9. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Elizabeth Bear". The Locus Index to SF Awards. Locus Magazine. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
  10. ↑ "The Audie Competition 2012 Winners and Finalists". Audiofile Magazine. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
  11. ↑ "Announcing the 2012 Hugo Award Winners". Tor.com. 2012-09-02. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
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