Alix E. Harrow
Born (1989-11-09) November 9, 1989 (age 34)
Idaho, United States
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
EducationBerea College (BA)
University of Vermont (MA)
GenreScience fiction, speculative fiction
Years active2014–present
Notable works"A Witch's Guide to Escape" (2018)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019)
Notable awardsHugo Award for Best Short Story (2019)
BFA for Best Fantasy Novel (2021)
Website
alixeharrow.wixsite.com/author

Alix E. Harrow (born November 9, 1989) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award, and in 2019 she won a Hugo Award for her story "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies". She has published under the name Alix Heintzman.

Life and career

Alix E. Harrow was born on November 9, 1989, in the United States and grew up in Kentucky.[1] She enrolled at Berea College at age sixteen, where she completed a bachelor's degree in history in three years.[1][2] She then went on to earn a master's degree in history from the University of Vermont.[1] Before working as a full-time writer, Harrow was an academic historian who taught as an adjunct professor of African and African American history at Eastern Kentucky University.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Her first novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019), was received with critical acclaim and nominated for multiple awards, including the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award for best novel.[9][10][11] A second novel, The Once and Future Witches (2020), won a British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award).[12][13][14] A more recent novella, A Spindle Splintered (2021), was nominated for a Hugo Award for best novella.

Harrow has also written short fiction for Shimmer, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and Apex. This has produced a Hugo award winning 2018 short story called "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" (published by Apex).

Harrow lives in Virginia[15] with her husband, Nick Stiner, and two children.

Awards

Year Nominee Award Category Result Ref
2019 "A Witch's Guide to Escape" Eugie Award (Short Fiction) Finalist [16]
Hugo Short Story Won [16]
Locus Short Story 6th [16]
Nebula Short Story Nominated [16]
World Fantasy Awards Short Fiction Nominated [16]
2020 The Ten Thousand Doors of January BFA Fantasy Novel Nominated [16]
Newcomer Nominated [16]
Dragon Awards Sci-fi Novel Nominated [16]
Hugo Novel Nominated [16][9]
Locus First Novel 3rd [16]
Nebula Novel Nominated [16][10]
World Fantasy Awards Novel Nominated [16][11]
"Do Not Look Back, My Lion" Hugo Short Story Nominated [16]
2021 The Once and Future Witches BFA Fantasy Novel Won [12][13][14]
Dragon Awards Fantasy Novel Nominated [16]
Locus Award Fantasy Novel 5th [16]
"The Sycamore and the Sybil" Eugie Award (Short Fiction) Finalist [16]
Locus Short Story 6th [16]
2022 A Spindle Splintered Hugo Novella Nominated [16]
Locus Novella 4th [16]
"Mr. Death" Hugo Short Story Nominated [16]
Locus Short Story 2nd [16]
Nebula Nebula—Short Story Nominated [16]

Bibliography

Novels

Novellas

Short fiction

References

  1. ^ a b c locusmag (2021-01-18). "Alix E. Harrow: Questions of Power". Locus Online. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
  2. ^ "Alix Harrow '09 Makes Literary History". Give to Berea. 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  3. ^ Cunningham, Joel (2019-09-06). "In Which Alix E. Harrow Is Interviewed by Her Husband About The Ten Thousand Doors of January". The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  4. ^ "Interview With an Author: Alix E. Harrow". Los Angeles Public Library. 2019-09-05. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  5. ^ Rocket, Stubby the (2019-09-13). "Highlights from Alix E. Harrow's r/Books AMA". Tor.com. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  6. ^ "Interview with Alix E. Harrow". Apex Magazine. 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  7. ^ Harrow, Alix E. (2015-07-29). "Galapagos Regained by James Morrow". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  8. ^ "About Me – Alix Heintzman". Alix Heintzman – Instructional Design Portfolio. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  9. ^ a b "2020 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  10. ^ a b "Nebula Awards Nominees and Winners: Best Novel Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  11. ^ a b "World Fantasy Awards 2020, World Fantasy Convention". World Fantasy Convention. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  12. ^ a b "British Fantasy Awards 2021: winners announced | The British Fantasy Society". www.britishfantasysociety.org. Archived from the original on 2022-06-19. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
  13. ^ a b locusmag (2021-09-27). "2021 British Fantasy Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
  14. ^ a b "British Fantasy Award Winners". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
  15. ^ "Return to the Multiverse of Fairy Tales: Revealing a Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow". Tor.com. September 8, 2021.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "sfadb : Alix E. Harrow Awards". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  17. ^ "Review of A Mirror Mended, by Alix E. Harrow - The Chrysalis BREW Project". November 16, 2022.
  18. ^ "The Long Way Up, by Alix E. Harrow - The Deadlands". January 31, 2022.

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