Brooke Bolander

Brooke Bolander is an American author of speculative fiction.^[1]

Brooke Bolander
Brooke Bolander at Worldcon in Helsinki, 2017
Occupation	Short fiction author
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Leicester Clarion Workshop
Period	2008–present
Genre	Speculative fiction
Notable works	The Only Harmless Great Thing (2018)
Notable awards	Nebula–Novelette (2018) Locus–Novelette (2018)
Website
brookebolander.com

Biography

Bolander attended the University of Leicester, studying History and Archaeology,^[2] and is a graduate of the 2011 Clarion Workshop.^[3]

Literary career

Bolander's work, including both short fiction and essays, has been published in venues such as Lightspeed,^[2] Uncanny Magazine,^[4] and Strange Horizons.^[3]

Her novelette "And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" (2015), first published in Lightspeed,^[5] was a finalist for the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novelette,^[6] the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novelette,^[7] and the 2016 Locus Award for Best Novelette.^[8] It was included in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection.^[9]

Her short story "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies" (2016), in Uncanny Magazine,^[10] was a finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story^[11] and the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.^[12]

Her novelette The Only Harmless Great Thing (2018), released by Tor,^[13] won the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 2019 Locus Award for Best Novelette, and was a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.

Awards and nominations

Year	Title	Award	Category	Result	Ref
2015	"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead"	Nebula Award	Novelette	Shortlisted	[6]
2016		Hugo Award	Novelette	Shortlisted	[7]
		Locus Award	Novelette	Nominated	[8]
		Theodore Sturgeon Award	—	Shortlisted	[14]
	"Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies"	Nebula Award	Short Story	Shortlisted	[11]
2017		Hugo Award	Short Story	Shortlisted	[12]
		World Fantasy Award	Short Fiction	Shortlisted
2018	The Only Harmless Great Thing	Nebula Award	Novelette	Won
2019		Hugo Award	Novelette	Shortlisted	[14][15]
		Locus Award	Novelette	Won
		Shirley Jackson Award	Novella	Shortlisted	[14][15]
		Theodore Sturgeon Award	—	Shortlisted	[14][15]
		World Fantasy Award	Novella	Shortlisted	[14][15]
	"The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters..."	Hugo Award	Short Story	Shortlisted

Bibliography

Source: ISFDB^[16]

Fiction

Source:^[10]

• "Trickster Blues" (2008)
• "Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring" (2012)
• "Tornado's Siren" (2012)
• "Sun Dogs" (2012)
• "The Beasts of the Earth, the Madness of Men" (2013)
• "Darlings" (2014)
• "The Legend of RoboNinja" (2014)
• "Mechanical Animals" (2014)
• "And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" (2015)^[5]
• "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies" (2016)
• "The Last of the Minotaur Wives" (2017)
• The Only Harmless Great Thing (2018)^[13]
• "The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat" (2018)^[17]
• "No Flight Without the Shatter" (2018)

• Kindle (2019)
• A Bird, a Song, a Revolution (2019)
• A Glossary of Radicalization (2020)
• Where the River Turns to Concrete (2020)

Nonfiction

• "Breaching the Gap" (2014)
• "Introduction" (Genius Loci) (2016)
• "The Uncanny Dinosaurs—Introduction" (2018)

See also

• List of science-fiction authors