Mary A. Turzillo
Roles: Author
Website: http://www.maryturzillo.com/
Bio:
An Emeritus Professor at Kent State University, Mary founded Cajun Sushi Hamsters and has taught in NASA's Science through Arts. Mary's “Mars Is no Place for Children” won the 1999 Nebula, and An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl, her first novel, appeared in Analog. Among other magazines, Asimov's, F& SF, Interzone, SF Age, Weird Tales, Oceans of the Mind, Electric Velocipede, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Goblin Fruit, and Strange Horizons have published/will soon publish her fiction and poetry. Her story “Scout” is slated for publication in George Scithers’ new magazine Cat Tales. Your Cat & Other Space Aliens appeared from vanZeno press in 2007. Her longer stories Ewaipanoma (Sam’s Dot, ed.Tyree Campbell) and American Portmanteau Theater (Scrybe Press, ed. Nathaniel Barker) will appear as chapbooks in 2008. Dragon Soup, her collaboration of poetry, art, and fiction with award-winning artist/writer Marge Simon will appear in 2008. Heart's Journey, Mars Quest, a novel about the adventures of Marcus and Zora Smithe (parents of her plucky Martian girl hero Kapera) is in the works.