Mary Turzillo
Big ideas, strange worlds, and stories beyond the familiar.
About Mary
Mary Turzillo's 1999 Nebula-winner,"Mars Is no Place for Children" and her Analog novel, An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl, are read on the International Space Station. Her poetry collection, Lovers & Killers, won the 2013 Elgin Award. She has been a finalist on the British Science Fiction Association, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars and Rhysling ballots. Sweet Poison, her Dark Renaissance collaboration with Marge Simon, was a Stoker finalist and won the 2015 Elgin Award.
She's working on a novel, A Mars Cat and his Boy, and another collaboration with Marge Simon, this one about evil women. Her novel Mars Girls, will be coming out in 2017 from Apex. She lives in Ohio, with her scientist-writer husband, Geoffrey Landis.
She has been a finalist on the British Science Fiction Association, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars and Rhysling ballots.