I have returned to fiction writing after a hiatus of two decades, and am now dividing my time between my debut novel and the occasional shorter piece.
Most recent: “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers” is about a young autistic person and some genetically engineered corvids; it appeared in the July/August 2023 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and subsequently won the Readers’ Choice Award for Best Short Story. I wrote a post for the Asimov’s blog explaining how I came to write “Hope” and why it was important to me.
One of my earlier stories, an original fairy tale called “The Shell Box” — published in the anthology Silver Birch, Blood Moon (alongside such luminaries as Robin McKinley, Patricia McKillip, and Neil Gaiman) — has been rereleased in an ebook. Silver Birch, Blood Moon won the 2000 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.
My novelette “Of Silence and Slow Time”, originally published in 1995, was reprinted in 2012 in the Gallaudet University Press collection Outcasts and Angels: The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature. In 2022, it was the subject of a chapter entitled “Reproductive and Disability Justice: Deaf Peoples’ Right to Be Born” in The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature.
Best Short Story, Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award, 2024
Grand Prize, Writers of the Future, 1993
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