Mary Turzillo

 ( 1940 Births ) 

Mary A. Turzillo (born 1940)Turzillo, Mary A., 1940- - LC Linked Data Service (Library of Congress) is an American science fiction writer noted primarily for short stories. She won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 2000 for her story "Mars is No Place for Children,"Charles Brown, "2000 Nebula Banquet," Locus, July 2000 published originally in Science Fiction Age. Her story "Pride," published originally in Fast Forward 1, was a Nebula award finalist for best short story of 2007."Nebula Award Nominees," The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Spring 2007

She was formerly a professor of English at Kent State University, where she wrote articles and several books of science fiction criticism under the name Mary T. Brizzi, including Reader's Guide to Anne McCaffrey and Reader's Guide to Philip José Farmer. She attended the Clarion Workshop in 1985,"Nebula Award Nominees," The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Summer 2000 and she founded the Cajun Sushi Hamsters writing workshop in Cleveland, Ohio.S. Andrew Swann, Genrewonk interviews: Mary A. Turzillo, February 20, 2009 retrieved Oct. 3, 2013

In 2022, she was the author guest of honor at the Convention Marcon 57

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Fiction Although Mary had published poetry and academic works before attending the Clarion Writers workshop, her main publications in science fiction occurred following Clarion, with the publication of the stories “What Do I See In You” in Writers of the Future Volume IV, and “Kings” in After this her work appeared regularly in the SF magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact, as well as original anthologies such as Universe and Fast Forward.

Her first novel, An Old Fashioned Martian Girl, was serialized in Analog magazine in 2004, and a revised version, Mars Girls, appeared from Apex in 2017.Mary Turzillo, Mars Girls, Apex Publications, May 2017. Paperback ; e-book ASIN B071YJWV6Y. Her short story collection Bonsai Babies appeared from Omnium Gatherum in 2016. Release Day is Here for Bonsai Babies!, Omnium Gatherum, October 14, 2016 (retrieved 11 November 2016). Her short story collection Cosmic Cats and Fantastic Furballs, a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories featuring cats, appeared from WordFire Press in 2022. Cosmic Cats & Fantastic Furballs: Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories with Cats, WordFire Press 2022. (Retrieved 18 Dec. 2022).

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Poetry Turzillo is also a poet, published in a number of national publications. Her collection of poetry, Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, was published by VanZeno Press in 2007. A collaborative collection of poetry and fiction, Dragon Soup (written with artist and poet Marge Simon), appeared from VanZeno in 2008, and another collaboration with Simon, The Dragon's Dictionary, was published by Sam's Dot in 2010.

She has won several Ohio Poetry Day awards. She has won the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Elgin Award for best poetry book twice. In 2013, her collection Lovers and Killers (Dark Regions, 2012).Science Fiction Poetry Association, 2013 Elgin Awards For books published in 2012 (Retrieved October 3, 2013) In 2015, her poetry book Sweet Poison, a collaboration with Marge Simon (Dark Renaissance Books, 2014) won the award.Science Fiction Poetry Association, 2015 Elgin Awards For books published in 2013 & 2014. Retrieved November 11, 2015.

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Academic work Turzillo has a Ph.D. in English from Case Western Reserve University, where her Ph.D. thesis was "The writer as double agent: essays on the conspiratorial mode in contemporary fiction."Mary Turzillo, "The writer as double agent: essays on the conspiratorial mode in contemporary fiction," Case Western Reserve University 1970, OCLC listing Retrieved Dec. 16. 2016 She worked as a professor in the English Department of the Trumbull Campus of Kent State University. Under the name Mary T. Brizzi, she has published a number of papers in the area of science fiction criticism,Papers include: "C. J. Cherryh and Tomorrow's New Sex Roles" in Staicar (ed) The Feminine Eye (Ungar: New York, 1982), pp. 32-47; "Narcissism and Romance in McCaffrey's Restoree," in Patterns of the Fantastic, edited by Donald M Hasser, Academic Programming at CHICON IV, San Berandino, California (Borgo Press, 1983), pp. 136-145; "The Launching Pad," in Extrapolation, v. 23, no. 1 (1982): pp. 3-4, 107. (See listing at Laura Quilter, Research and Literary Criticism, Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Utopia. Retrieved 16 Dec. 2016.) and is the author of two books, Reader's Guide to Anne McCaffrey Reader's Guide to Anne McCaffrey, Starmont Reader's Guide series; Borgo Press (1986) and Reader's Guide to Philip José Farmer.

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Personal life

In her private life, Turzillo is a competitive Fencing.Team USA Athlete bios, Veteran Athletes: Mary Turzillo U.S.A Fencing. Retrieved Nov. 22, 2016. In 2016, she was a member of the U.S women's foil team at the Veterans Fencing World Championships in Stralsund, Germany.Kristen Henneman, "Veteran World Championships Begins Tuesday", U.S.A Fencing, Oct. 10, 2016. Retrieved Nov. 22, 2016.

She is married to fellow science fiction writer Geoffrey A. Landis."Geoffrey A. Landis: Hands-On Science," Locus, January 2000

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Bibliography

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Novels

• Serialized in Analog. See details under Short Fiction. The book version is Mars girls.

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Short fiction

Collections

• Turzillo, Mary (2026). 9780997971743, Omnium Gatherum. ISBN 9780997971743
• Mary Turzillo, Wordfire Press, 2022. Retrieved June 4, 2022.

StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.

Crimes against nature	1994
An old-fashioned Martian girl - part I of IV	2004
An old-fashioned Martian girl - part II of IV	2004
An old-fashioned Martian girl - part III of IV	2004
An old-fashioned Martian girl - part IV of IV	2004
The Guatemala cure	1995	(1995). 031285577X, Pyr. 031285577X	(1999). 9780312867843, Pyr. ISBN 9780312867843
Mate	1997
Chrysoberyl	1998
Mars is no place for children	1999		(2026). 9780151005819, Harcourt. ISBN 9780151005819 (2026). 9780156013352, Harcourt. ISBN 9780156013352	Nebula Award winner, 2000
By Ben Cruachan	1999
Pride	2007	(2026). 9781591024866, Pyr. ISBN 9781591024866	(2026). 9781597801706, Night Shade Books. ISBN 9781597801706 (2026). 9781434447234, Wildside Press. ISBN 9781434447234	Nebula Award nominee, 2008
Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads	2007	(2026). 9781844164486, Solaris. . ISBN 9781844164486	(2026). 9781434448811, Wildside Press. ISBN 9781434448811
Steak tartare and the cats of Gari Babakin	2009

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Poetry

Collections

• Turzillo, Mary A. (2026). 9780978924409, vanZeno Press. ISBN 9780978924409
• (2026). 9780978924454, vanZeno Press. ISBN 9780978924454
• Turzillo, Mary A. (2026). 9781937128326, Dark Regions Press. ISBN 9781937128326
• (2026). 9781605431901, Dark Renaissance Books. ISBN 9781605431901
  Trent Walters, Review: Sweet Poison, SFSite, 2014 (retrieved November 11, 2015)

List of poems

If we are alone	2013
Product recalls	2014
The view from Cruithne	2014

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External links

• Official site

Categories: 1940 Births, Living People, 21st-century American Novelists, 21st-century American Short Story Writers, 21st-century American Women Novelists, American Science Fiction Writers, American Women Short Story Writers, Analog Science Fiction And Fact People, Case Western Reserve University Alumni, Kent State University Faculty, Nebula Award Winners, Oberlin College Alumni, American Women Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers, Novelists From Ohio, American Women Academics

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