Richard Garfinkle

{{short description|American writer of science fiction (born 1961)}}

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|occupation=Author

|nationality=American

|education=Clarion West Writers Workshop

|genre=Science fiction

|awards=Compton Crook Award (1997)

|spouse=Alessandra Kelley

|children=2

|website={{url|http://www.richardgarfinkle.com/index.html}}

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Richard Garfinkle (born 1961) is an American writer of science fiction.

He is best known as the author of Celestial Matters, a novel published by Tor Books, which won the Compton Crook Award in 1997.{{cite web |publisher=Baltimore Science Fiction Society |title=Compton Crook Award Winners |url=http://www.bsfs.org/bsfsccw.htm |accessdate=June 25, 2012}}

Garfinkle is a 1992 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and was nominated twice for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}}

He has taught at numerous writers' workshops at Windycon, an annual Chicago-area science fiction convention,{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}} and at Chicon 2000, the 58th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Chicago.[http://www.chicon.org/depts/writers.htm Chicago 2000 World Science Fiction Convention page] He's married to Alessandra Kelley and has two daughters.{{cite web | url=https://www.richardgarfinkle.com/links.html | title=Richard Garfinkle Science Fiction and Other Links }}

Bibliography

Celestial Matters (novel, Tor Books, April 1996). {{ISBN|0-312-85934-1}}
All of an Instant (novel, Tor Books, November 1999). One of the most original sci fi novels of all time. {{ISBN|0-312-86617-8}}
"The Last Invasion of Ireland" in Once Upon a Galaxy, Wil McCarthy, Martin H. Greenberg, and John Helfers, eds. (collection, Daw Books, September 2002). {{ISBN|0-7564-0091-0}}
Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter (nonfiction, with brother David Garfinkle, University of Chicago Press, November 2008). {{ISBN|0-226-28346-1}}
Exaltations (novel, Achronal Press, June 2009). {{ISBN|978-0-578-03514-7}}
Wayland's Principia (novel, Achronal Press, August 2009). {{ISBN|978-0-578-02362-5}}