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Eugie Foster (December 30, 1971 – September 27, 2014) was an American
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writer, columnist, and editor. Her stories were published in a number of magazines and book anthologies, including ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show ''Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show'' (2008) is a science fiction and fantasy anthology edited by Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card. Originally published in paperback by Tor Books in August 2008, it contains eighteen stories ...
'', and '' Interzone.'' Her collection of short stories, ''Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice'', was published in 2009. She won the 2009
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and was nominated for multiple other Nebula, BSFA, and Hugo Awards. The Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction is given in her honour.


Life and career

Born December 30, 1971, in
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, Foster lived in
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. She earned a master's degree in developmental psychology at Illinois State University and worked as an editor of legislation for the Georgia General Assembly. In 1992 she married Matthew M. Foster. In the science fiction and fantasy field Foster worked as the managing editor for both ''Tangent Online'' and ''The Fix,'' two online short fiction review magazines. She was also a director for
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and edited their onsite newsletter, the ''Daily Dragon.'' Foster wrote "Writing for Young Readers," a monthly column for
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and
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writers."Eugie Foster Obituary," Locus Magazine, November 2014, Page 55. Foster died at
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on September 27, 2014 from respiratory failure, a complication of treatments for
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, with which she was diagnosed on October 15, 2013. A plaque and bench in Foster's memory are located in Hessel Park in
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.


Short stories

Foster's
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were published in a number of magazines and books, including ''
Fantasy Magazine A fantasy fiction magazine, or fantasy magazine, is a magazine which publishes primarily fantasy fiction. Not generally included in the category are magazines for children with stories about such characters as Santa Claus. Also not included are ...
'', ''
Realms of Fantasy ''Realms of Fantasy'' was a professional bimonthly fantasy speculative fiction magazine published by Sovereign Media, then Tir Na Nog Press, and Damnation Books, which specialized in fantasy fiction (including some horror), related nonfiction (wi ...
'', ''
Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show ''Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show'' (2008) is a science fiction and fantasy anthology edited by Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card. Originally published in paperback by Tor Books in August 2008, it contains eighteen stories ...
'', '' Interzone'', ''Best New Romantic Fantasy 2,'' and ''
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''. Her story " Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" won the 2009
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Winners Nebula Awards
Accessed September 04, 2012.
and was also a finalist for the Hugo and
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Awards. The day before Foster died, ''
Daily Science Fiction ''Daily Science Fiction'' was an American online science fiction magazine originally founded in September 2010 and edited by Jonathan Laden and Michele Barasso. New stories were published each weekday. On 11 August 2022 the magazine announced it ...
'' published her last story, " When It Ends, He Catches Her." The story was named a finalist for the 2015 Nebula Awards. In 2022, her story "The Art of Victory When the Game is All the World" was published posthumously in ''
Fantasy & Science Fiction ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy fiction magazine, fantasy and science-fiction magazine, first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence E. Spivak, Lawrence Spiv ...
''. She wrote the story while sick with cancer, but died before she could submit it for publication.


Awards

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Published works

Foster's short fiction appeared in the following:


Anthologies


Collections

* Contents: ** "Inspirations End" ** "Still My Beating Heart" * Contents: ** "Daughter of Bótù" ** "The Tiger Fortune Princess" ** "A Thread of Silk" ** "The Snow Woman’s Daughter" ** "The Tanuki-Kettle" ** "Honor is a Game Mortals Play" ** "The Raven's Brocade" ** "Shim Chung the Lotus Queen" ** "The Tears of My Mother, the Shell of My Father" ** "Year of the Fox" ** "The Archer of the Sun and the Lady of the Moon" ** "Returning My Sister’s Face" * Contents: ** "The Life and Times of Penguin" ** "Running on Two Legs" ** "Black Swan, White Swan" ** "The Bunny of Vengeance and the Bear of Death" ** "A Nose for Magic" ** "The Center of the Universe" ** "The Wizard of Eternal Watch" ** "Mortal Clay, Stone Heart" * Contents: ** "The Girl Who Drew Cats" ** "The Tax Collector's Cow" ** "When Shakko Did Not Lie" ** "The Princess and the Golden Fish" ** "Li TIen and the Demon Nian" ** "A Parade of Taylups" ** "Cuhiya's Husband" ** "The Dragon Breath's Seed" ** "Kaawwa, Naagan, and the Queen's Diamond Necklace" ** "The Adventures of Manny the Mailmobile" ** "A Patch of Jewels in the Sky" ** "Spring Arrives on a Hob's Tail" ** "Second Daughter" ** "Princess Bufo Marinus, Also Known as Amy" ** "Razi and the Sunbird" ** "The Red String" ** "The Tortoise Bride" ** "The King of the Rabbits and Moon Lake"


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Foster, Eugie 1971 births 2014 deaths 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers American fantasy writers American science fiction writers American women short story writers Deaths from respiratory failure Nebula Award winners Writers from Urbana, Illinois Writers from Atlanta American women science fiction and fantasy writers