Mary Rickert
Born (1959-12-11) December 11, 1959
Port Washington, Wisconsin, U.S.
Pen nameM. Rickert
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
GenreScience fiction, fantasy

Mary Rickert, known as M. Rickert (born December 11, 1959, in Port Washington, Wisconsin), is an American writer of fantasy fiction. Many of her stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her first collection, Map of Dreams, was published by Golden Gryphon Press in 2006; her second collection, Holiday, appeared in 2010 from the same publisher. She lives in Wisconsin.

Rickert's fiction has won or been nominated for several major awards. "Journey into the Kingdom" was nominated for the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and an International Horror Guild Award, and won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.[1] Map of Dreams won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection and the 2007 Crawford Award, and the collection's title story was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. On November 10, 2015, Small Beer Press will publish Rickert's third collection, You Have Never Been Here, containing selected stories from her first two collections, as well as three new stories, one of them a novella.

Bibliography

Novels

  • The Memory Garden. Sourcebooks Landmark. 2014. ISBN 978-1402297120.
  • The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie. Undertow Publications. 2021. ISBN 978-1988964324.

Short fiction

Collections
Year Title Identifiers Publisher Notes
2006 Map of Dreams ISBN 1930846444 Golden Gryphon Press Contents: "Map of Dreams", "Dreams: Dreaming of the Sun", "Leda", "Cold Fires", "Angel Face", "Night Blossoms", "Nightmares: Feeding the Beast", "Bread and Bombs", "Art Is Not a Violent Subject", "Anyway", "A Very Little Madness Goes a Long Way", "Waking: What I Saw, When I Looked", "The Girl Who Ate Butterflies", "Many Voices", "More Beautiful Than You", "Peace on Suburbia", "Rising: Flight", "Moorina of the Seals", "The Harrowing", "The Super Hero Saves the World", "The Chambered Fruit"
2010 Holiday ISBN 1930846657 Golden Gryphon Press Contents: "Holiday", "Memoir of a Deer Woman", "Journey into the Kingdom", "The Machine", "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account", "Don't Ask", "Traitor", "Was She Wicked? Was She Good?", "You Have Never Been Here", "War is Beautiful", "The Christmas Witch"
2015 You Have Never Been Here ISBN 978-1618731104 Small Beer Press Contents: "Memoir of a Deer Woman", "Journey into the Kingdom", "The Shipbuilder", "Cold Fires", "The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece", "The Christmas Witch", "Holiday", "The Chambered Fruit", "The Mothers of Voorhisville", "You Have Never Been Here"
List of stories
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
"The Girl Who Ate Butterflies" 1999 Rickert, M. (Aug 1999). "The Girl Who Ate Butterflies". F&SF. 97 (2): 71–82. Rickert, M. (2006). Map of Dreams. Golden Gryphon Press.
"Angel Face" 2000 Rickert, M. (Jul 2000). "Angel Face". F&SF. 99 (1): 50–55. Rickert, M. (2006). Map of Dreams. Golden Gryphon Press.
"Moorina" 2001 Rickert, M. (Feb 2001). "Moorina". F&SF. 100 (2): 95–102.
"Journey into the Kingdom" 2006 Rickert, M. (May 2006). "Journey Into the Kingdom". F&SF. 110 (5): 132–158.
"Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account" 2008 Rickert, M. (October–November 2008). "Evidence of Love In a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account". F&SF. 115 (4&5): 192–200. Rickert, M. (2006). Map of Dreams. Golden Gryphon Press.
"Evergreen" 2019 Rickert, M. (November 5, 2019). "Evergreen". F&SF. 137 (11 & 12): 129–135.
"Another F*cken Fairy Tale" 2020 Rickert, M. (May 5, 2020). "Another F*cken Fairy Tale". F&SF. 138 (5 & 6): 247–255.
"Last Night at the Fair" 2020 Rickert, M. (July–August 2020). "Last Night at the Fair". F&SF. 139 (1 & 2): 28–34.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on 2010-12-01. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 "Mary Rickert". The Locus Index to SF Awards. Locus Magazine. Archived from the original on 2014-03-24. Retrieved 2014-04-27.
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