Holly Phillips

Holly Phillips is a Canadian writer of science fiction and fantasy.^[1][2]

Life and career

Phillips was born in Nelson, British Columbia.^[1][2][3] She was raised in Trail and other small towns in British Columbia. She attended Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, but contracted fibromyalgia and did not complete her degree. Resettling in Trail in 1994, she took creative writing classes at a community arts collective. Her early short stories mostly appeared in small-press magazines. Her first was published in 2000 in On Spec magazine, for which she was a member of the editorial board for four years beginning in 2001.^[3] Her work, often straddling a borderline between science fiction and fantasy, tends to focus on protagonists in ambiguous situations that can be explained or understood in different, often mutually incompatible ways.^[2] In addition to writing she is a member of the Celtic folk music trio Pickled Thistle.^[3]

Recognition

Phillips's stories "In the Palace of Repose" and "The Other Grace" were finalists for the 2004 International Horror Guild Award and the 2006 World Fantasy award, respectively. Her collection In the Palace of Repose won the 2006 Sunburst Award and was a finalist for the 2006 World Fantasy and Crawford awards.^[3]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Burning Girl (2006)
• The Engine's Child (2008)

Collections

• In the Palace of Repose (2005)
• At the Edge of Waking (2012)

Anthologies

• Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Science Fiction (2007 - with Cory Doctorow)

Short stories

• "No Such Thing As an Ex-Con" (2000)
• "Adapting for the Deep" (2001)
• "Last One" (2001)
• "An Instant Remedy" (2002)
• "The New Ecology" (2002)
• "The Season of Her Return" (2002)
• "All The Room In The World" (2002)
• "Alchemy" (2003)
• "The Gate Between Hope and Glory" (2003)
• "A Beggar in Shadow" (2004)
• "The Dead Boy" (2004)
• "In the Palace of Repose" (2004)
• "In the Shadow of Your Head" (2004)
• "Luck of the Gods" (2004)
• "A Woman's Bones" (2005)
• "By the Light of Tomorrow's Sun" (2005)
• "One of the Hungry Ones" (2005)
• "Pen & Ink" (2005)
• "The Other Grace" (2005)
• "Variations on a Theme" (2005)
• "The Lass of Loch Royal" (2005)
• "Summer Ice" (2005)
• "Virgin of the Sands" (2006)
• "canvas, mirror, glass" (2006)
• "Gin" (2006)
• "Queen of the Butterfly Kingdom" (2007)
• "The Oracle Spoke" (2007)
• "Three Days of Rain" (2007)
• "Brother of the Moon" (2007)
• "Field Time" (2007)
• "The Past Never Dies" (2007)
• "Proving the Rule" (2008)
• "The Small Door" (2008)
• "The Long, Cold Goodbye" (2009)
• "Thieves of Silence" (2009)
• "Cold Water Survival" (2009)
• "Last Drink Bird Head" (2009)
• "Country Mothers' Sons" (2010)
• "The Rescue" (2010)
• "Castle Rock" (2012)

Poetry

• "Soon Enough" (2003)
• "Sister Dark" (2005)
• "Sister Light" (2005)
• "Grey November" (2006)
• "Rain"" (2006)

Articles

• "O for a muse of fire ... " (2002)
• "Editorial: That Kind of Thing" (2002)

Notes

1. 1 2 Holly Phillips at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
2. 1 2 3 Clute, John. "Phillips, Holly." in SFE: the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. 4/1/2012, rv.12/21/2015.
3. 1 2 3 4 "Holly Phillips: Drawn to Darkness." Article in Locus Magazine, June 2007.

External links

• hollyphillips.com