Susan Palwick (born 1960 in New York City) is an American writer and associate professor emerita of English at the

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. She began her professional career by publishing "The Woman Who Saved the World" for ''

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'' in 1985. Raised in northern New Jersey, Palwick attended

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, where she studied fiction writing with novelist Stephen Koch, and she holds a doctoral degree from

Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. In the 1980s, she was an editor of ''The Little Magazine'' and then helped found ''The New York Review of Science Fiction,'' to which she contributed several reviews and essays. Although she is not a prolific author, Palwick's work has received multiple awards, including the Rhysling Award (in 1985) for her poem "The Neighbor's Wife." She won the Crawford Award for best first novel with '' Flying in Place'' in 1993, and the Alex Award in 2006 for her second novel, '' The Necessary Beggar''. Her third novel, '' Shelter'', was published by Tor in 2007. Another book, '' The Fate of Mice'' (a collection of short stories), has also been published by

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. Susan Palwick is a practicing Episcopalian and

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. For many years, she wrote a column for the Church Health Center's website on faith and health, HopeandHealing.org. As of 2019, she worked as a hospital chaplain in Reno.

Bibliography

Novels

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Collections

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Short fiction

Poetry Collections

*''Brief Visits: Sonnets from a Volunteer Chaplain'' (2012)

References

External links

Susan Palwick's blog

Review of ''The Fate of Mice''
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Review of ''Shelter''
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