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Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Born (1981-04-25) April 25, 1981 (age 43)
Baja California, Mexico
Occupationauthor
NationalityMexico
GenreSpeculative fiction
Website
www.silviamoreno-garcia.com

Silvia Moreno-Garcia (born 25 April 1981) is a Mexican Canadian novelist, short story writer, editor, and publisher.

Early life

Moreno-Garcia was born April 25, 1981,[1] and raised in Mexico.[2] Both her parents worked for radio stations.[3] She moved to Canada in 2004, where she presently lives with her family in Vancouver, British Columbia.[4]

Career

Moreno-Garcia began her career publishing in various fiction magazines and books including Exile Quarterly. She was a finalist for the 2011 Manchester Fiction Prize.[5] Her first short story collection This Strange Way of Dying was published in September 2013 by Exile Editions. Her second collection, Love and Other Potions came out in 2014 from Innsmouth Free Press.[6] Her debut novel Signal to Noise was published in 2015 by Solaris Books.[7]

She serves as publisher of Innsmouth Free Press, an imprint devoted to weird fiction.[8] With Paula R. Stiles, she co-edited the books Historical Lovecraft (2011), Future Lovecraft (2012), Sword and Mythos (2014), and She Walks In Shadows (2015).[9][10][11][12] With Orrin Grey, she co-edited Fungi (2013), a collection of "fungal fiction".[13] With Lavie Tidhar, she edits The Jewish Mexican Literary Review.[14] In 2016, she won a World Fantasy Award for the anthology She Walks in Shadows and a Copper Cylinder Award for her novel Signal to Noise.

As of October 2019 Moreno-Garcia is a book columnist for The Washington Post.[15]

In February 2020 she was announced as a finalist for the Nebula Award 2019 in the Best Novel category for her book Gods of Jade and Shadow [16]

Awards

Won

  • Copper Cylinder Adult Award, 2016 (Signal to Noise)
  • World Fantasy Award, Best Anthology, 2016 (She Walks in Shadows)

Nominated

  • Nebula Award, best novel, 2019 (Gods of Jade and Shadow)
  • Locus Award, best fantasy novel, 2019 (Gods of Jade and Shadow)

Bibliography

As editor or co-editor

References

  1. ^ "ISNI 0000000118265005 Garcia, Silvia Moreno- ( born 1981-04-25 )". www.isni.org. Retrieved Apr 6, 2020.
  2. ^ "Interview with Silvia Moreno- Garcia". Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Interview: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Signal to Noise". Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  4. ^ Silvia Moreno-Garcia at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  5. ^ Mills, Adam. "Interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Orrin Grey".
  6. ^ http://www.silviamoreno-garcia.com/blog/bibliography/love-other-poisons/
  7. ^ "SIGNAL TO NOISE". Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  8. ^ Innsmouth Free Press - Staff
  9. ^ "Innsmouth Free Press - Historical Lovecraft". Retrieved Apr 6, 2020.
  10. ^ "Innsmouth Free Press - Future Lovecraft". Retrieved Apr 6, 2020.
  11. ^ "Innsmouth Free Press - Sword and Mythos". Retrieved Apr 6, 2020.
  12. ^ "She Walks in Shadows". Retrieved Apr 6, 2020 – via www.innsmouthfreepress.com.
  13. ^ "Fungi". Retrieved Apr 6, 2020 – via www.innsmouthfreepress.com.
  14. ^ The Jewish Mexican Literary Review - Editors
  15. ^ Moreno-Garcia, Silvia; Tidhar, Lavie. "Review | The weird, the wacky, the underappreciated: A new look at science fiction and fantasy". Washington Post. Retrieved Apr 6, 2020.
  16. ^ "2019 Nebula Award Finalists Announced". Science Fiction Writers Association. SFWA. Retrieved 2020-02-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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