Susan Candace Petrey (7 April 1945 – 5 December 1980) was an American writer of fantasy short fiction.

Biography

Born in Seattle, Petrey worked as a medical technologist after obtaining a degree in microbiology. Most of her writing took place in a setting involving "gentle healing vampires", the "Varkela".[1] Only three of her stories were professionally published during her lifetime.[1] More of her work appeared in the posthumous collection Gifts of Blood (1990).[2] In 1981, she was nominated, also posthumously, for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her story "Spidersong" was nominated for the Hugo Award.[1]

Petrey was active in the Portland, Oregon science fiction fandom. A group of her friends established the Susan C. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund[3] in her memory. The fund annually raises money to send aspiring writers to the Clarion Workshop.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Cross, Debbie; Wrigley, Paul M. (11 November 2014). "Author Spotlight: Susan C. Petrey - Lightspeed Magazine". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  2. ↑ Davis Nicoll, James (18 June 2018). "Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1970s, Part VIII". Tor.com. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "Susan C. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund – OSFCI". osfci.org. Retrieved 19 June 2018.


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