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Delia Sherman

(b.1951)

Delia Sherman is the author of two middle grade novels, Changeling (selected for the Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Program) and The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen. Her short stories for younger readers have appeared in numerous anthologies including The Faery Reel, Firebirds, Troll's Eye View, and A Wolf at the Door. She is also the author of a number of novels for adults. Delia lives in New York, New York, and is available to give readings, school and library visits, and teach workshops.

Awards: Prometheus (2012), Mythopoeic (2012), Nebula (2012) see all

Genres: Fantasy, GameLit

Series

Swords of Riverside (with Ellen Kushner)
3. The Fall of the Kings (2002)

Changeling
1. Changeling (2006)
2. The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen (2009)

Novels

   Through a Brazen Mirror (1988)
   The Porcelain Dove (1993)
   The Freedom Maze (2001)
   The Evil Wizard Smallbone (2016)

Novellas and Short Stories

Young Woman in a Garden (1994)

Anthologies edited

   The Horns of Elfland (1997) (with Donald G Keller and Ellen Kushner)
   Interfictions (2007) (with Theadora Goss)
   Interfictions 2 (2009) (with Christopher Barzak)

Series contributed to

Borderlands
The Essential Bordertown (1998) (with Terri Windling)

Tor.Com Original
The Great Detective (2016)

Tremontaine
Tremontaine: The Complete Season 4 (2018) (with others)

Books containing stories by Delia Sherman

Mechanical Animals (2018)
Tales at the Crux of Creatures and Tech
edited by
Selena Chambers and Jason Heller

Mad Hatters and March Hares (2017)
All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
edited by
Ellen Datlow

New York Fantastic (2017)
Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps
edited by
Paula Guran

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Awards

	2012 Prometheus Award : The Freedom Maze
	2012 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature : The Freedom Maze
	2012 Andre Norton Award : The Freedom Maze
	2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature : The Fall of the Kings
	1994 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature : The Porcelain Dove

Award nominations

	2017 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature (nominee) : The Evil Wizard Smallbone
	2017 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel (nominee) : The Evil Wizard Smallbone
	2017 Andre Norton Award (nominee) : The Evil Wizard Smallbone
	2015 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Young Woman in a Garden
	2008 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Fiddler of Bayou Teche
	2007 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Walpurgis Afternoon
	2003 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Fall of the Kings
	2000 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Parwat Ruby
	1998 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Fall of the Kings [short story]
	1994 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Porcelain Dove
	1989 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Through a Brazen Mirror
	1989 Astounding Award for Best New Writer (nominee) : Through a Brazen Mirror

Delia Sherman recommends

A Tip for the Hangman (2021)
Allison Epstein
"Anyone who likes Elizabethan bad boys, theater, spies, high intrigue, suspense, and sex is going to be delighted by A Tip for the Hangman. The writing goes down like a pint of good ale on a hot day and the characters are excellent company to enjoy it with. Christopher Marlowe himself would have loved it. I certainly did."

The Oddling Prince (2018)
Nancy Springer
"In The Oddling Prince, Nancy Springer juggles the tropes of fantasy and folklore with skill and wit, exploring kingship, brotherhood, friendship and heroism of many kinds while telling a story that kept me up far too late finding out what was going to happen next to characters I really cared about."

Cadaver & Queen (2018)
(Cadaver & Queen, book 1)
Alisa Kwitney
"It swept me right away."

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