Emma Bull

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|12|13}}

| birth_place = Torrance, California, U.S.

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| occupation = Writer

| language = English

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| subject = Science fiction
Fantasy

| alma_mater = Beloit College

| spouse = Will Shetterly

| notableworks = War for the Oaks
Bone Dance

| awards = Locus –First Novel

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Emma Bull (born December 13, 1954) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her novels include the Hugo- and Nebula-nominated Bone Dance and the urban fantasy War for the Oaks. She is also known for a series of anthologies set in Liavek, a shared universe that she created with her husband, Will Shetterly. As a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, she has been a member of the Minneapolis-based folk/rock bands Cats Laughing and The Flash Girls.

Early years

Emma Bull was born in Torrance, California. She attended Beloit College in Wisconsin, and graduated in 1976 with a degree in English Literature and Composition.{{cite web |title=Double Feature by Emma Bull & Will Shetterly |work=NESFA Press |date=June 6, 2004 |url=http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/BullShetterly.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102115959/http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/BullShetterly.htm |archive-date=2016-01-02 |access-date=2015-10-17 }} After graduating, she worked for a while as a journalist and graphic designer.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}

Career

Emma Bull's best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}

File:Emma Bull, Wiscon 2006.jpg, 2006]]

Her 1991 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel Bone Dance was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}} She was a member of the writing group The Scribblies, which included her husband, Will Shetterly, as well as Pamela Dean, Kara Dalkey, Nate Bucklin, Patricia Wrede and Steven Brust.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}

With Steven Brust, Bull wrote Freedom and Necessity (1997), an epistolary novel set during the 19th century Chartist movement of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.{{cite web |last=Angus |first=Ewan |title=Freedom and Necessity book review |work=SFcrowsnest |date=September 1, 2010 |url=http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2010/Freedom-And-Necessity-by-Steven-Brust-and-Emma-Bull-15328.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616051624/http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2010/Freedom-And-Necessity-by-Steven-Brust-and-Emma-Bull-15328.php |archive-date=June 16, 2013 |access-date=January 15, 2011 }}

= Shared universes =

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Bull and Shetterly created the shared universe of Liavek, for which they have both written stories. There are five Liavek collections extant.

Bull has also participated in Terri Windling's Borderland shared universe, which is the setting of her 1994 novel Finder.

= Music =

File:Emma Bull and Lojo Russo in Cats Laughing reunion.jpg In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bull sang in the Minneapolis-based rock-folk band Cats Laughing. She also reunited with the band for two concerts in 2015, including a reunion show at the Minicon 50 science fiction convention.{{cite web |title=Minicon 50 – The Gold Edition |author=Minnesota Science Fiction Society |url=http://mnstf.org/minicon50/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141116043417/http://mnstf.org/minicon50/ |archive-date=2014-11-16 }}{{cite web |first1=Dee |first2=Corwin |last1=Brust |last2=Brust |title=Create a Cats Laughing Twenty Year Reunion Event & Album |work=Kickstarter |date=January 2015 |url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214684691/create-a-cats-laughing-twenty-year-reunion-event-a |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108152957/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214684691/create-a-cats-laughing-twenty-year-reunion-event-a |archive-date=2015-01-08 }} Bull appears on Cats Laughing's two studio albums, and on the live CD and reunion concert DVD Cats Laughing: A Long Time Gone (2016).{{cite web |title=A Long Time Gone |work=Beyond Conventions |access-date=2014-11-15 |url=http://beyondconventions.com/cats.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141116042213/http://beyondconventions.com/cats.html |archive-date=2014-11-16 }}

From the early 1990s to 2001, Bull also both sang and played guitar in the "goth-folk" duo The Flash Girls,{{cite web |last=Bull |first=Emma |title=Her Biography |work=Emma Bull |year=2008 |type=WordPress blog |url=http://emmabull.wordpress.com/about/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301154038/https://emmabull.wordpress.com/about/ |archive-date=2016-03-01 }} with whom she recorded three albums.

= Screenwriting =

Bull wrote a screenplay for War for the Oaks, which was made into an 11-minute mini-film designed to look like a film trailer. She made a cameo appearance as the Queen of the Seelie Court, and Will Shetterly directed.

She is Executive Producer and one of the writers for Shadow Unit,[http://www.shadowunit.org/index.html Shadow Unit] (official website). along with Shetterly, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, and Amanda Downum.

Personal life

Bull and Shetterly live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Bibliography

=Novels=

War for the Oaks (1987)
Falcon (1989)
Bone Dance (1991)
Finder (1994)
Freedom and Necessity (1997, with Steven Brust
Territory (2007)

=Short works=

"Rending Dark" (1984) in Sword and Sorceress, edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley
"Badu's Luck" (1985) in Liavek
"The Well-Made Plan" (1986) in Liavek: The Players of Luck
"Danceland Blood" (1986, with Will Shetterly) as "Danceland" in Bordertown, edited by Terri Windling
"Wonders of the Invisible World" (1988 essay) in October–November issue of New North Artscape
"A Bird That Whistles" (1989) in Hidden Turnings, edited by Diana Wynne Jones
"Why I Write Fantasy" (1990 essay) in Pulphouse 6
Why I Write Fantasy (1990) (Essay)
For it All (1991) (Poem)
"Silver or Gold" (1992) in After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Martin H. Greenberg
The Princess and the Lord of Night (1994)
Wonders of the Invisible World (1994) (Essay)
"The Stepsister's Story" (1995) (Poem) in The Armless Maiden, edited by Terri Windling
"Joshua Tree" (2002) in The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
"The Black Fox" (2003) in Firebirds, edited by Sharyn November
"De La Tierra" (2004) in The Faery Reel, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
"What Used to Be Good Still Is" (2006) in Firebirds Rising, edited by Sharyn November
Cuckoo (2009) (with Elizabeth Bear & Leah Bobet)
Nine Oracles (2011)
Incunabulum (2011)
My Generation (2011) (Poem)
The Last of John Ringo (2012)
Man of Action (2012)

=Collection=

Double Feature (1994, collected works with Will Shetterly) from NESFA Press
And Other Stories (2012) (with Will Shetterly)

=Anthology series=

Liavek (1985, Ace Books, edited with Will Shetterly)
Liavek: The Players of Luck (1986, Ace Books, edited with Will Shetterly)
Liavek: Wizard's Row (1987, Ace Books, edited with Will Shetterly)
Liavek: Spells of Binding (1988, Ace Books, edited with Will Shetterly)
Liavek: Festival Week (1990, Ace Books, edited with Will Shetterly)

Discography

With Cats Laughing:

Bootleg Issue (1988)
Another Way to Travel (1990)
A Long Time Gone (forthcoming CD and concert DVD, 2016)

With The Flash Girls

The Return of Pansy Smith and Violet Jones (1993)
Maurice and I (1994)
Play Each Morning Wild Queen (2001)

Awards

Nominee, 1986 Locus Award, Best Anthology for Liavek {{Cite web|url=https://www.sfadb.com/Emma_Bull|title=sfadb : Emma Bull Awards|website=www.sfadb.com}}
Nominee, 1987 World Fantasy Award, Best Collection for Liavek: The Players of Luck
Winner, 1988 Locus Award, Best First Novel for War for the Oaks
Nominee, 1988 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for War for the Oaks
Nominee, 1988 Locus Award, Best Fantasy Novel for War for the Oaks
Nominee, 1990 Locus Award, Science Fiction Novel for Falcon
Nominee, 1991 Philip K. Dick Award, Best Novel for Bone Dance
Nominee, 1992 Locus Award, Best Science Fiction Novel for Bone Dance
Nominee, 1992 World Fantasy Award, Best Novel for Bone Dance
Nominee, 1992 Hugo Award, Best Novel for Bone Dance
Nominee, 1992 Nebula Award, Best Novel for Bone Dance
Nominee, 1993 Nebula Award, Best Novella for "Silver or Gold"
Nominee, 1995: Locus Award, Best Fantasy Novel for Finder
Nominee, 1995: Mythopoeic Awards, Best Children's Literature for The Princess and the Lord of Night
Nominee, 1998: Locus Award, Best Fantasy Novel for Freedom & Necessity
Nominee, 2007: Locus Award, Best Novelette for What Used to Be Good Still Is
Nominee, 2008: Locus Award, Best Fantasy Novel for Territory
Nominee, 2010: Locus Award, Novella for Cuckoo
Nominee, 2008 World Fantasy Award, Best Novel for Territory
Nominee, 2014 Cando Award, Best Novel for Territory

References

External links

{{Official website | emmabull.wordpress.com }} at WordPress
{{isfdb name|id=Emma_Bull|name=Emma Bull}}
[http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/emma-bull/ Fantastic Fiction bibliography]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20020125111136/http://scifan.com/writers/bb/BullEmma.asp Bibliography] on SciFan
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120205014125/http://www.romm.org/silver.html The Unusual Suspects at Shockwave Silver]
[http://www.fantasyliterature.net/bullemma.html Reviews for Emma Bull's Fantasy Fiction] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804072259/http://www.fantasyliterature.net/bullemma.html |date=2009-08-04 }}

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