Greer Ilene Gilman is an American author of

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stories.

Biography

She was educated at

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and the

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, where she studied on a Vida Dutton Scudder Fellowship. Her stories are noted for their dense prose style, which is strongly focused on native English roots, sometimes reminiscent of

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. Her characteristic themes are drawn from a mixture of North English and Scottish

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s and seasonal rituals, which she uses to create a complex mythology centered on the seasons and constellations of her fictional world of Cloud. Her novel '' Moonwise'', in which two women travel in a world they have created, won the

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for 1991. Her collection of three stories, '' Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales'' won the Tiptree Award in 2009, and has been shortlisted for the Mythopoeic Award in 2010. Both are published by Small Beer Press. The novella "A Crowd of Bone" published in ''Trampoline: an anthology'' won the 2004 World Fantasy Awards. Her work has also been published in '' Salon Fantastique'', ''The Faces of Fantasy'', and ''Mythic Delirium''. Her essay, "Girl, Implicated: The Child in the Labyrinth in the Fantastic" appeared in the ''Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts'', vol.19 no. 2. Her chapter on "The Languages of the Fantastic" appears in the ''Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature''.About Greer Gilman
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by Greer Gilman, from the ''Trampoline'' anthology * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gilman, Greer 20th-century American novelists American fantasy writers American women short story writers American women novelists Living people American women science fiction and fantasy writers World Fantasy Award–winning writers 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American short story writers 1951 births 21st-century American women Wellesley College alumni