Michaela Roessner
{{short description|American visual artist and science fiction author}}
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Michaela-Marie Roessner-Hermann{{Cite book | last = Clute | first = John | authorlink = John Clute | author2 = John Grant | authorlink2 = John Grant (author) | title = Encyclopedia of Fantasy | publisher = Tor | year = 1997 | location = New York | pages = [https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffa0000unse_s7g7/page/819 819] | isbn = 0-312-15897-1 | url = https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffa0000unse_s7g7/page/819 }} (born January 27, 1950) is an American science-fiction writer publishing under the name Michaela Roessner.
Biography
Born in San Francisco, she was raised in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Thailand, and Oregon. Trained as a visual artist, she holds a BFA in Ceramics from the California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA in Painting from Lone Mountain College, and exhibits under the name M. M. Roessner-Herman.[http://www.brazenhussies.net/Roessner/MR_Bio.html Biography: Michaela Roessner] In 1989, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.{{Cite web | title = John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer Listings | work = Locus Guide to SF Awards | publisher = Locus | year = 2010 | url = http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Cnew1989.html#null | accessdate = 2010-10-16}}
Her first novel, Walkabout Woman, was a 1989 nominee for the Mythopoeic Award,[http://www.mythsoc.org/MFAnoms.html Nominees for Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards] and won the Crawford Award.{{Cite web | title = William L. Crawford - IAFA Fantasy Award Winners By Year | work = Locus Guide to SF Awards | publisher = Locus | year = 2010 | url = http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/CrawfordWinsByYear.html | accessdate = 2010-10-16 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100815052005/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/CrawfordWinsByYear.html | archivedate = 2010-08-15 }} She has also published the science fiction novel Vanishing Point and number of short stories, published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, SciFiction, Omni Online, Strange Plasma, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and elsewhere. She is also the author of two historical novels, The Stars Dispose (1997) and The Stars Compel (1999), about Catherine de Medici. She lives in southern California.
She has taught at the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University and the Gotham Writers' Workshop.[http://www.writingclasses.com/FacultyBios/facultyBioByInstructor.php/TeacherID/93403/ Michaela Roessner Faculty Biographies] at Gotham Writers' Workshop and WritingClasses.com {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128123723/http://www.writingclasses.com/FacultyBios/facultyBioByInstructor.php/TeacherID/93403 |date=2007-11-28 }}
Awards
Bibliography
- Walkabout Woman (1988)
- Vanishing Point (1993){{cite web |url=http://www.leftfield.org/~rawdon/books/sf/roessner_michaela/ |title=Michaela Roessner |last=Rawdon |first=Michael |date=June 1997 |website=Leftfield |access-date=11 July 2010}}
- The Stars Dispose (1997)
- The Stars Compel (1999)
References
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External links
- [http://www.brazenhussies.net/Roessner/ Michaela Roessner's page at Brazen Hussies]
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- [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/michaela-roessner/ Michaela Roessner entry at Fantastic Fiction]
- [http://www.hour25online.com/hr25_2001-08-10_brazen-hussies_interview.m3u Interview with Pat Murphy and Michaela Roessner] on Hour 25, August 10, 2001.
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Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:American fantasy writers
Category:American science fiction writers
Category:American women novelists
Category:John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer winners
Category:University of San Francisco alumni
Category:Novelists from San Francisco
Category:American women science fiction and fantasy writers
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American women
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