Christopher Rowe (author)

Christopher Rowe (born December 25, 1969^[1]) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, whose stories have been finalists for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the World Fantasy Award.^[2][3]

Christopher Rowe
Born	(1969-12-25) December 25, 1969 (age 55) Columbia, Kentucky, US

Career

Rowe's first professionally published short story was "Kin to Crows" (Realms of Fantasy, 1998).^[4] His best-known story is "The Voluntary State" (Sci Fiction, 2004),^[1] which was nominated for multiple major awards.^[3] That story was followed by two sequels: "The Border State" (2017) and These Prisoning Hills (2022).^[5]

His 2017 short-story collection Telling the Map received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly ("wild creativity, haunting imagery, and lyricism"), Kirkus Reviews (a "clutch of complex, persuasive visions of an alternate South"),^[6] and Tor.com ("a stellar set of stories that mesh well together").^[7]

Personal life

He lives in Lexington, Kentucky. He was married to fellow author Gwenda Bond, with whom he co-authored The Supernormal Sleuthing Service book series,^[8] from 2004 to 2023.^[9]

Bibliography

Short fiction

Collections

• Rowe, Christopher (2017). Telling the map.

Stories^[a]

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
Kin to crows	1998	Realms of Fantasy
The Voluntary State	2004	Sci Fiction	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (ed. Gardner Dozois)
The unveiling	2015	Rowe, Christopher (January 2015). "The unveiling". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (1): 14–21.
The Border State	2017			Sequel to "The Voluntary State"
Knowledgeable Creatures	2019	Christopher Rowe. "Knowledgeable Creatures". Tor.com Original Fiction. Retrieved 6 October 2023.	The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 (ed. Rich Horton)
These Prisoning Hills	2022			Novella; sequel to "The Voluntary State" and "The Border State"
The Navigating Fox	2023			Novella; set in the same milieu as "Knowledgeable Creatures"

———————

Notes

1. Short stories unless otherwise noted.