Mary A. Turzillo

Writer and poet

Read Mary's blog at LiveJournal.

Read my story "Pride," which originally appeared in Fast Forward 1.

After a career as a professor of English at Kent State University, Dr. Mary A. Turzillo is now a full-time writer. In 2000, her story "Mars Is No Place for Children" won SFWA's Nebula award for best novelette. Her novel An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl was serialized in Analog in July-Nov 2004.

Mary's Pushcart-nominated collection of poetry, Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, appeared from VanZeno Press in 2007.

cover for Your Cat & Other Space Aliens book

Cover for Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, 2007
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Mary A. Turzillo
Photo by Mike Benveniste 2003

The Nebula

Photos of Mary A. Turzillo at the Nebula Ceremony

"Mars Is No Place for Children" is now available in electronic form from Fictionwise.com.

Photos

Mary with Anne McCaffrey at the Nebulas in 2005.
Mary A. Turzillo: Photo by Geoffrey A. Landis

Mary in winter. Mary with Lurker

Photos by Geoffrey A. Landis

More photos of Mary A. Turzillo.
Our cats Lurker and Sam

Mary in Edinburgh, with Robert Jack and Nick Underwood, (2/3 of) the cast of the Theatre Modo production of Ubu, performing at the Festival Fringe, August 2005.

Bibliography

Bibliography of science-fiction stories by Mary Turzillo
Mary A. Turzillo bibliography compiled by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Or, check the Locus Index

Academic Nonfiction

Under her academic alias of Professor Mary T. Brizzi, she has written numerous academic papers and journal articles, and is the author of two nonfiction books, Reader's Guide to Anne McCaffrey and Reader's Guide to Philip José Farmer, both from Starmont Press.

Clarion

In July 2001, Mary was one of the instructors at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' workshop , along with Geoffrey A. Landis, Steven Barnes, James Patrick Kelly, Kelly Link, and Pat Murphy.

Mary at the Rio Hondo Workshop
Mary Godzilla Theme Song