Elyse Guttenberg

Elyse Guttenberg (born August 9, 1952) is an Alaskan writer known primarily for her fantasy novels.

Biography

Elyse Guttenberg was born in New York City and grew up in Astoria, and Rochdale Village in Queens. In 1972, she followed her two brothers, Richard and David Guttenberg north to attend the University of Alaska Fairbanks where she received a bachelor's degree in Anthropology (1977) and a MAT in English (1979). At UAF Guttenberg was one of the founding editors of Permafrost, the nation's farthest north literary journal. Guttenberg served for many years as a member of the Alaska State Council on the Arts Literature Review Panel, and the Fairbanks North Star Borough Library Commission.

She married Luke Hopkins (born ca. 1945) in 1977 and has two grown children, Selena Hopkins-Kendall and Grier Hopkins. Luke Hopkins was the mayor of the Fairbanks North Star Borough until 2015, having been elected to the post in 2009 following his retirement from a career working at UAF. Grier Hopkins is a legislative aide to Alaska State Senator Joe Thomas.

Guttenberg is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, as well as an Artist's Initiative grant. Her novel "Sunder, Eclipse and Seed," received honorable mention for the William L. Crawford Award for the year's best new fantasy from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

Works

• Inroads: An Anthology Celebrating Alaska's Twenty-Seven Fellowship Writers, 1988, edited with Jean Anderson
• Sunder, Eclipse and Seed, Roc, 1990
• Summer Light, HarperCollins, 1995
• Daughter of the Shaman, HarperCollins, 1997

Shorter works

• "Selena's Song," in Spaceships and Spells, edited by Jane Yolen, Martin Greenberg, & Charles Waugh. Harper and Row, 1987
• "Plane Story," in The Women's Press Book of Myth and Magic, edited by Helen Windrath, The Women's Press, 1993

Anthologies

• "The Faces of Fantasy: Photographs by Patti Perret," intro. by Terri Windling, ISBN 0-312-86182-6
• SUMMER LIGHT excerpt in "The Last New Land, stories of Alaska Past and Present," edited by Wayne Mergler, forward John Haines, ISBN 0882408143

External links

• Permafrost
• Representative David Guttenberg
• Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards
• Alaska State Council on the Arts
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• Elyse Guttenberg at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database