Lucy A. Snyder (born 1971) is an American science fiction, fantasy, humor, horror, and non-fiction writer.
Biography Born in South Carolina, Snyder grew up in San Angelo, Texas, after her father was briefly assigned to Goodfellow Air Force Base. She graduated from Angelo State UniversityAngelo State University Magazine, Fall 2010 and then moved to Bloomington, Indiana, for graduate studies in environmental science and journalism at Indiana University Bloomington. She is a graduate of the 1995 Clarion Workshop; authors Nalo Hopkinson and Kelly Link were among her classmates.The Register of Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop: Archive of Stories by Participants, 1969 - 2013
She lives in Columbus, Ohio, formerly with her now ex-husband and occasional coauthor Gary A. Braunbeck.
Writings Over 80 of her short stories have appeared in various magazines, anthologies, and collections, including Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Escape Pod and Short Trips: Destination Prague. One of her online humor stories, "Installing Linux on a Dead Badger", became the basis for a short humor collection of the same name published in 2007. Her 2012 horror story "Magdala Amygdala" won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Short FictionHorror Writers Association List of Past Bram Stoker Award Nominees and Winners and was selected to appear in The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five (edited by Ellen Datlow). This story later served as the basis for her 2023 novel Sister, Maiden, Monster.
Her poetry has appeared in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, GUD Magazine and Weird Tales. In March 2010, Snyder was awarded a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry for her collection Chimeric Machines.Horror Writers Association List of Past Bram Stoker Award Nominees and Winners
Snyder served as an editor for HMS Beagle, an online bioscience publication produced by Elsevier, and briefly served as a contributing editor for Strange Horizons. Since January 2010, she has mentored students in Seton Hill University's MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction.
Awards Year TitleAwardCategoryResult2009Chimeric MachinesBram Stoker AwardPoetry Collection2010SpellbentBram Stoker AwardFirst NovelLocus AwardFirst Novel2012"Magdala Amygdala"Bram Stoker AwardShort Fiction2014Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and ProfitBram Stoker AwardNon-FictionSoft ApocalypsesBram Stoker AwardFiction Collection2015 While the Black Stars BurnBram Stoker AwardFiction Collection 2018Garden of Eldritch DelightsBram Stoker AwardFiction Collection Shirley Jackson Award Collection 2019 Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations Shirley Jackson Award Anthology2021 Exposed NervesBram Stoker AwardPoetry Collection2022Elgin AwardsBook
Bibliography Novels
Serials A Glimpse of Darkness (Del Rey Books, 2010, co-written with Lara Adrian, Harry Connolly, Kelly Meding, and Stacia Kane)
Collections Blood Magic (2001) Sparks and Shadows (2007) Installing Linux on a Dead Badger (2007) Chimeric Machines (2009) Orchid Carousals (2013) Soft Apocalypses (2014) While the Black Stars Burn (2015) Garden of Eldritch Delights (2018) Halloween Season (2020) Exposed Nerves (2021)
Nonfiction books Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide (2014)
References
Sources Burgess, Liz: "Technomancy and the Zombie Apocalypse", Sequential Tart, July 9, 2007.
External links
Livejournal Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes
Interview at GUD Magazine Interview at Nightmare Magazine