Biography Delia Sherman was born in Tokyo, Japan and brought up in New York, New York. She spent much of her early life at one end of a classroom or another, first at Vassar and Brown University, where she earned a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies in 1981, and later at Boston University and Northeastern, where she taught Freshman Composition and Fantasy as Literature. Her first novel, Through a Brazen Mirror (Ace, 1989), was published as one of the prestigious Ace Fantasy Specials. Her second novel, The Porcelain Dove (Dutton, 1993; Plume, 1994), won the Mythopoeic Award for Fantasy Fiction. Her short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and the anthologies Xanadu II (Tor, 1994), The Armless Maiden (Tor, 1995), and Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (Avon, 1995), and the children's anthologies A Wolf at the Door (Simon & Schuster, 2000) and The Green Man (Penguin, 2002) as well as numerous volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.

She was nominated for the Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer of 1990. She has twice served as a judge for the Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Novel and is a member of the Motherboard of the James Tiptree Jr Award Council. In 1995, Sherman exchanged the fading groves of academe for the mean streets of publishing, becoming a contributing editor for Tor Books, where she edits novels by some of today's finest fantasy writers. She co-edited the fantasy anthology The Horns of Elfland (Roc, 1997) with Ellen Kushner and Don Keller and the latest of the Bordertown punk-elf anthologies with Terri Windling (Tor, 1998). She also continues to teach SF and Fantasy writing at Odyssey, Clarion, the ISIS Institute of Interstitial Arts, and the Cape Cod Writers Workshop, as well as workshops at Wiscon and the occasional WorldCon. She is working with Ellen Kushner, Victor Raymond, Theodora Goss, Stephen H. Segal, Joellen Easton, and Kristen McDermott in organizing the Interstitial Arts movement, dedicated to supporting and promoting art that crosses genre borders. She lives with fellow author and fantasist Ellen Kushner in New York City. She prefers cafés to home for writing (they bring you things to eat and the phone's never for you) and traveling to staying at home. Contact Delia Sherman: CordSher at gmail dot com

Bibliography

Fiction Short Stories "The Fiddler of Bayou Teche" (forthcoming in Coyote Road, ed. Datlow & Windling, Viking Penguin, 2007) "Walpurgis Afternoon" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 2005; The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, ed. Link & Grant, St. Martin's, 2006; The Year's Best Fantasy, ed. Hartwell & Cramer, Tachyon Press, 2006 "CATNYP" The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, ed. Datlow & Windling, Viking Penguin, 2004; The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens, ed. Yolen & Nielsen Hayden, Tor Teens, 2005 "Cotillion" Firebirds, ed. Sharyn November, Viking Penguin, 2003 "Grand Central Park" The Green Man, ed. Datlow & Windling, Viking Penguin, 2001 "The Twelve Months of New York City" A Wolf at the Door, ed. Datlow & Windling, Simon & Schuster, 2000 "The Parwat Ruby" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1999; The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, St. Martin's, 2000 "The Tragedy of King Alexander the Stag" A Distant Soil, ed. Colleen Doran, Image Comics, 1999 "On the Taconic" (with Ellen Kushner) Paradoxa—Studies in World Literary Genres Vol. 4 No. 10, Special Issue: "Metafictions: Stories in Reading," March, 1999 "Socks" The Essential Bordertown, ed. Terri Windling & Delia Sherman, Tor, 1998 "The Fairy Cony-Catcher" Sirens, ed. Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow, HarperCollins, 1998; The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, St. Martin's, 1999; (Japan) Hayakawa SF magazine, Fantasy issue, autumn 2000 "Sacred Harp" The Horns of Elfland, ed. Ellen Kushner, Donald S. Keller, & Delia Sherman, Roc, 1997 "The Fall of the Kings" (with Ellen Kushner) Bending the Landscape, ed. Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagels, White Wolf, 1997; The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, St. Martin's, 1998 "The Witch's Heart" The Sandman Book of Dreams, ed. Neil Gaiman & Ed Kramer, Harper Prism, 1996; The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, St. Martin's, 1997 "The Printer's Daughter" Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, ed. Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow, St. Martin's, 1995; The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, St. Martin's, 1996 "Young Woman in a Garden" Xanadu 2, ed. Jane Yolen and Martin Greenberg, Tor, 1994; The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, St. Martin’s, 1995; Flying Cups & Saucers, ed. Debbie Notkin et al., Edgewood Press, 1998 "Blood Kin" Vampires!, ed. Jane Yolen & Martin Greenberg, Harper & Row, 1991 "Land's End" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1991 "Nanny Peters and the Feathery Bride" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1990; The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, St. Martin's, 1991 "Miss Carstairs and the Merman" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1989; The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, St. Martin's, 1990; on-line: Journal of Mythic Arts, Endicott Studio, summer 2003 "The Maid on the Shore" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1987; The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, St. Martin's, 1988 "As Blood Is It Red" Weirdbook, #23/24, Winter 1988 "The Fleeting Season" Fantasy Book, March 1986 "Runner Beans" Fantasy Macabre #6, 1985 Novels Changeling (Viking Penguin, 2006) The Fall of the Kings (with Ellen Kushner) Bantam Books, 2002 The Porcelain Dove. Dutton, 1993; Plume, 1994 Through a Brazen Mirror. Ace, 1988; Circlet Press, 1999 Poetry "The Crone," Black Heart, Ivory Bones, ed. Datlow & Windling. Avon, 2000 "Carabosse," Silver Birch, Blood Moon, ed. Datlow & Windling. Avon, 1999; on-line: Endicott Studio Coffeehouse "Snow White to the Prince," The Armless Maiden, ed. Terri Windling, Tor Books, 1995; on-line: Endicott Studio Coffeehouse