Elizabeth Hand

Hand worked across novelist, writer, science fiction writer, journalist and fantasy author. The registers place that work in fantasy, novelization, horror fiction, mystery fiction, juvenile fantasy and science fiction. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Elizabeth Hand studied at The Catholic University of America. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are fantasy, novelization, horror fiction and mystery fiction. Distinctions recorded are Nebula Award for Best Novella, Otherwise Award, World Fantasy Award for Best Novella and World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.

• Name — Elizabeth Hand • Born — 29 March 1957 • Birthplace — Yonkers, New York, U.S. • Occupation — Novelist • Education — Catholic University of America • Genre — Science fiction, Fantasy • Website — elizabethhand.com/ Elizabeth Hand (born March 29, 1957) is an American writer.

Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She studied drama and anthropology at the Catholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand has lived in coastal Maine, the setting for many of her stories, and as of 2000 lives in Lincolnville. She also lives part-time in Camden Town, London which has been the setting for Mortal Love and the short story "Cleopatra Brimstone". Hand's first published story, "Prince of Flowers", appeared in 1988 in The Twilight Zone Magazine, and her first novel, Winterlong, was published in 1990. With Paul Witcover, she created and wrote DC Comics' 1990s cult series Anima. Hand's other works include Æstival Tide (1992); Icarus Descending (1993); Waking the Moon (1994), which won the Tiptree Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award; the post-apocalyptic novel Glimmering (1997); contemporary fantasy Black Light (1999), a New York Times Notable Book; the historical fantasy Mortal Love (2004), a Washington Post Notable Book; the psychological thriller Generation Loss (2007), and the World Fantasy Award-winning "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon". Her story collections are Last Summer at Mars Hill (1998) (which includes the Nebula and World Fantasy award-winning title novella); Bibliomancy (2002), winner of the World Fantasy Award; and Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories, which includes the Nebula Award-winning "Echo" (2006). Mortal Love was also shortlisted for the 2005 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. Among Hand's other recent short fiction, "Pavane for a Prince of the Air" (2002) and "Cleopatra Brimstone" (2001) won International Horror Guild Awards. Most recently, she won the Shirley Jackson Award for Generation Loss and the World Fantasy Award in 2008 for Illyria, and the Inkpot Award in 2018. She also writes movie and television spin-offs, including Star Wars tie-in novels and novelizations of such films as The X-Files and 12 Monkeys. She contributed a Bride of Frankenstein novel to a series of classic movie monster novels published by Dark Horse Comics. One of Hand's themes from the Winterlong saga is the remorseless exploitation of animal and plant species to create what she calls "geneslaves." Examples include a three-hundred-year-old genetically reconstructed and cerebrally augmented Basilosaurus by the name of Zalophus; the aardmen, hybrids of dog and man; hydrapithecenes, human-fish or human-cuttlefish hybrids somewhat resembling Davy Jones and his crew from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series; and sagittals, whelks genetically engineered to be worn as a bracelet and, when its host feels threatened or agitated, extrude a spine laced with a deadly neurotoxin. Hand is a longtime reviewer and critic for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Review, Salon, and Village Voice, among others. She also writes a regular review column for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

• The Winterlong Trilogy: • Winterlong (Bantam Spectra, 1988) – • Æstival Tide (Bantam Spectra, 1992) – • Icarus Descending (Bantam Spectra, 1993) – • Waking the Moon (HarperCollins, 1994) –. Revised in 1995 as a shorter 390-page US edition – • Glimmering (HarperPrism, 1997). Revised second edition published by Underland Press, 2012 – • Black Light (HarperPrism, 1999) – • Mortal Love (HarperCollins, 2004) – • The Bride of Frankenstein: Pandora's Bride (Dark Horse Books, 2007). Universal Monsters media tie-in – • Radiant Days (Viking, 2012) • Wylding Hall (PS Publishing, 2015) • Curious Toys (Mulholland Books, 2019) • Hokuloa Road (Mulholland Books, 2022) • A Haunting on the Hill (Mulholland Books, 2023). An authorized sequel to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.

• Generation Loss (Small Beer Press, 2007; Influx Press, 2024) – • Available Dark (Minotaur Books, 2012; Influx Press, 2025) – • Hard Light (Minotaur Books, 2016; Influx Press, 2027) – • The Book of Lamps and Banners (Mulholland Books, 2020) –

• Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol (Beccon Publications, 2006). Illustrated by Judith Clute; originally published on Sci Fiction, December 2000 –. • The story is a tribute to entertainers Sandy Becker and Joey Ramone. An online edition of Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol was serialized by Hand on her Livejournal community "theinferior4". • Illyria (PS Publishing, 2006) –,

• Boba Fett: Maze Of Deception (Scholastic, 2003) – • Boba Fett: Hunted (Scholastic, 2003) – • Boba Fett: A New Threat (Scholastic, 2004) – • Boba Fett: Pursuit (Scholastic, 2004) –

• 12 Monkeys (HarperPrism, 1995) – • Millennium: The Frenchman (HarperCollins, 1997) – • The X-Files: Fight the Future (HarperPrism, 1998) – • Anna and the King (HarperEntertainment, 1999) – • The Affair of the Necklace (HarperEntertainment, 2001) – • Catwoman (Del Rey, 2004) –

• 1998 "The Darcy Bee" • 2000 "Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol" on Sci Fiction • 2002 "Cleopatra Brimstone" in Redshift • 2003 "The Least Trumps" in Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists • 2003 "The Girl With No Name" • 2004 "The Poet and the Inkmaker's Daughter" • 2006 "From Mortal Love" • 2018 "Farrow Street" • 2021 "For Sale by Owner" • 2023 "The Seventh Bride, or Female Curiosity"

• |Year — Review article — Work(s) reviewed • 2000 — * • 2011 — * * *

Elizabeth Hand was born on 29 March 1957 in Yonkers. Hand held the nationality of United States. Hand was educated at The Catholic University of America. Hand worked as novelist, writer, science fiction writer and journalist, and the authority record catalogues a further 1 occupations under the same name, among them fantasy author. Hand was active from 1988. The fields Hand worked in include fantasy, novelization, horror fiction, mystery fiction, juvenile fantasy, science fiction, fiction literature and essay. Hand worked in English.

• Last Summer at Mars Hill (HarperPrism, 1998) – • Bibliomancy (PS Publishing, 2003) – • Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories (M Press, 2006) – • Errantry: Strange Stories (Small Beer Press, 2012) – • The Best of Elizabeth Hand (Subterranean Press, 2021)

Awards for Elizabeth Hand • Work — Year & Award — Category — Result — Ref. • 2018 Inkpot Award • Winterlong — 1990 Philip K. Dick Award • 1991 Locus Award — First Novel • Snow on Sugar Mountain — 1992 Locus Award — Novelette • Æstival Tide — 1992 Philip K. Dick Award • 1993 Locus Award — SF Novel • In the Month of Athyr — 1993 Locus Award — Novelette • Icarus Descending — 1993 Philip K. Dick Award • The Erl-King — 1994 World Fantasy Award — Novella • Waking the Moon — 1995 World Fantasy Award — Novel • 1995 Otherwise Award • 1996 Locus Award — Fantasy Novel • 1996 Mythopoeic Awards — Adult Literature • Glimmering — 1998 Locus Award — SF Novel • 1998 Arthur C. Clarke Award • Last Summer at Mars Hill — 1995 Locus Award — Novella • 1995 HOMer Award — Novella • 1995 World Fantasy Award — Novella • 1996 Nebula Award — Novella • Last Summer at Mars Hill (Collection) — 1999 World Fantasy Award — Collection • 1999 Locus Award — Collection • Black Light — 2000 Locus Award — Fantasy Novel • Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol — 2001 World Fantasy Award — Novella • 2001 Locus Award — Novella • Cleopatra Brimstone — 2001 International Horror Guild Award — Long Fiction • 2002 World Fantasy Award — Novella • 2002 Locus Award — Novella • Pavane for a Prince of the Air — 2002 International Horror Guild Award — Intermediate Form • 2003 Locus Award — Novelette • The Least Trumps — 2003 Locus Award — Novella • 2003 World Fantasy Award — Novella • Bibliomancy — 2003 International Horror Guild Award — Collection • 2003 Bram Stoker Award — Fiction Collection • 2004 World Fantasy Award — Collection • 2004 Locus Award — Collection • Mortal Love — 2004 International Horror Guild Award — Novel • 2005 Locus Award — Fantasy Novel • 2005 Mythopoeic Awards — Adult Literature • Wonderwall — 2005 Locus Award — Short Story • Calypso in Berlin — 2006 Locus Award — Short Story • Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories — 2007 Locus Award — Collection • The Saffron Gatherers — 2007 Locus Award — Short Story • Generation Loss — 2007 International Horror Guild Award — Novel • 2007 Believer Book Award • 2008 Shirley Jackson Award — Novel • Echo — 2007 Nebula Award — Short Story • Illyria — 2008 Shirley Jackson Award — Novella • 2008 Locus Award — Novella • 2008 World Fantasy Award — Novella • Winter's Wife — 2008 Locus Award — Novelette • The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon — 2011 Locus Award — Novella • 2011 World Fantasy Award — Novella • 2011 Hugo Award — Novella • 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Award — Short Science Fiction — 2nd Place • Near Zennor — 2012 Shirley Jackson Award — Novella • 2012 Locus Award — Novella • 2012 World Fantasy Award — Novella • 2012 British Fantasy Award — Novella • Available Dark — 2012 Romantic Times Book Reviews — The Reviewers' Choice Award - Contemporary Mystery • Erranty: Strange Stories — 2012 Bram Stoker Award — Fiction Collection • 2013 Shirley Jackson Award — Collection • 2013 Locus Award — Collection • Radiant Days — 2013 Locus Award — Young Adult Book • Wylding Hall — 2016 Shirley Jackson Award — Novella • 2016 Locus Award — Fantasy Novel • Hard Light — 2016 Bram Stoker Award — Novel • Fire — 2018 Locus Award — Short Story • Curious Toys — 2020 Shirley Jackson Award — Novel • 2020 Locus Award — Horror Novel • The Book of Lamps and Banners — 2021 Locus Award — Fantasy Novel • For Sale by Owner — 2022 World Fantasy Award — Novella • 2022 Locus Award — Novelette • The Best of Elizabeth Hand — 2022 Locus Award — Collection • A Haunting on the Hill — 2023 The Dracula Society — Children of the Night Award • 2024 Locus Award — Horror Novel • 2024 Shirley Jackson Award — Special Award