Theodora Goss (born September 30, 1968) is a Hungarian American fiction writer and poet. Her writing has been nominated for major awards, including the Nebula, Locus, Mythopoeic, World Fantasy, and Seiun Awards. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Year's Best volumes.
Theodora Goss was born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States as a child.[4][2] She received her B.A. from the University of Virginia, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Boston University[3] She is also a graduate of the Odyssey and Clarion writing workshops, and sold her first published story, "The Rose in Twelve Petals," while a student at Clarion.[4]
Goss's debut novel, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, was published by Saga Press in June 2017,[6] and a sequel, European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, was published by Saga Press in July 2018.[7] The third book in the trilogy The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl, was published by Saga Press in October 2019.[8]
Awardsedit
Theodora Goss's writing has been nominated for the 2017 Locus Award for "Red as Blood and White as Bone," the 2015 Mythopoeic Award for "Songs for Ophelia", the 2011 Locus Award for "The Mad Scientist's Daughter," the 2008 Mythopoeic Award for "In the Forest of Forgetting", the 2007 Nebula Award for "Pip and the Fairies", and the 2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction for "The Wings of Meister Wilhelm".
She won the 2017 Rhysling Award for Best Long Poem for "Rose Child" and the 2004 Rhysling Award for Best Long Poem for "Octavia is Lost in the Hall of Masks".[9] In 2008, her story "Singing of Mount Abora" won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.[10]
Her 2017 novel The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter was a nominee for the 2018 Nebula Award and the 2018 Compton Crook Award for best first novel.
Her 2019 short story "How to Become a Witch-Queen" was nominated for the 2020 Shirley Jackson Award for short fiction.[11]
Worksedit
Booksedit
The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Clubedit
^ abc"Theodora Goss", Contemporary Authors Online (2008) Gale Biography In Context, Gale, Detroit
^ ab"The Monster in the Mirror: Late Victorian Gothic and Anthropology", English Dissertation Defense of Theodora Goss, Boston University, Oct 14, 2011. Retrieved 26 Oct., 2011)
^ abPress, Theodora Goss web page. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^Karen J. Weyant, "Reviews: Voices from Fairyland: The Fantastical Poems of Mary Coleridge, Charlotte Mew and Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited and with poems by Theodora Goss", Strange Horizons, 22 Dec. 2008. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
External linksedit
Author's official website
Theodora Goss at Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing (U. Southern Maine) site.
Interview: Theodora Goss: Shifting Ground (Locus, May 2008).