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President of IAF, writer, editor. Boston, Massachusetts Delia Sherman was born in Tokyo, Japan and brought up in New York, New York. She spent much of her early life at one end of a classroom or another, first at Vassar College and Brown University, where she earned a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies, and then at Boston University and Northeastern, where she taught Expository Writing and Fantasy as Literature. This life of reading and teaching led as it often does, to committing Fiction on her own account. She began with short stories, then moved up through novellas to her first novel, the Queer/Chaucerian Through a Brazen Mirror (1988), which was recently reprinted by Circlet Press. Her second novel, The Porcelain Dove, is an Interstitial work best described as a romantical–fantastical–historical comedy, set in the years leading up to the French Revolution. It was awarded the Mythopoeic Award in 1993. The Fall of the Kings, an Interstitial historical-academic-mythic tragedy set in an invented city, was written in collaboration with partner Ellen Kushner and published in 2002. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and has been translated into French and Japanese. She has also contributed stories to the young people's anthologies A Wolf at the Door, The Green Man, and Firebirds. She is currently working on a historical novel set against the background of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and a children's book about a human changeling who lives among the fairies in New York City. In 1995, she finally abandoned the fading groves of academe and put her skills to good use as a contributing editor for Tor Books and co-editor on the fantasy anthologies The Horns of Elfland (with Ellen Kushner) and The Essential Bordertown (with Terri Windling). But she still misses the classroom now and again, and has been on the faculty of the Clarion East and Odyssey writing workshops, as well as participating in the Writers' Respite at Wiscon. Sherman shares a 1910 urban farmhouse in Boston with Ellen Kushner and many pieces of paper. She loves airplanes, hotels, and unfamiliar places, gardening, and researching in brick-and-mortar libraries. She looks upon the country as a nice place to visit, but she is unable to contemplate life without cafés (where would she write?) and public transportation (she hates to drive). |
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