Mary Rickert, known as M. Rickert (born December 11, 1959, in Port Washington, Wisconsin), is an American writer of fantasy fiction. Many of her stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her first collection, Map of Dreams, was published by Golden Gryphon Press in 2006; her second collection, Holiday, appeared in 2010 from the same publisher. She lives in Wisconsin.
Rickert's fiction has won or been nominated for several major awards. "Journey into the Kingdom" was nominated for the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and an International Horror Guild Award, and won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. Map of Dreams won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection and the 2007 Crawford Award, and the collection's title story was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. Her "Holiday" collection was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2011. The short story “The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece” won a Shirley Jackson Award in 2012.
On November 10, 2015, Small Beer Press published Rickert's third collection, You Have Never Been Here, Retrieved 2026-05-04. containing selected stories from her first two collections, as well as three new stories, one of them a novella. Both the collection and novella "The Mothers of Voorhisville" were nominated for a World Fantasy Award.
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Novels
Short fiction Collections Year Title Identifiers Publisher Notes 2006 Map of Dreams Golden Gryphon PressContents: "Map of Dreams", "Dreams: Dreaming of the Sun", "Leda", "Cold Fires", "Angel Face", "Night Blossoms", "Nightmares: Feeding the Beast", "Bread and Bombs", "Art Is Not a Violent Subject", "Anyway", "A Very Little Madness Goes a Long Way", "Waking: What I Saw, When I Looked", "The Girl Who Ate Butterflies", "Many Voices", "More Beautiful Than You", "Peace on Suburbia", "Rising: Flight", "Moorina of the Seals", "The Harrowing", "The Super Hero Saves the World", "The Chambered Fruit" 2010 Holiday Golden Gryphon PressContents: "Holiday", "Memoir of a Deer Woman", "Journey into the Kingdom", "The Machine", "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account", "Don't Ask", "Traitor", "Was She Wicked? Was She Good?", "You Have Never Been Here", "War is Beautiful", "The Christmas Witch" 2015 You Have Never Been Here Small Beer PressContents: "Memoir of a Deer Woman", "Journey into the Kingdom", "The Shipbuilder", "Cold Fires", "The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece", "The Christmas Witch", "Holiday", "The Chambered Fruit", "The Mothers of Voorhisville", "You Have Never Been Here" List of stories TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes"The Girl Who Ate Butterflies"1999 "Angel Face"2000 "Moorina"2001"Journey into the Kingdom"2006"Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account"2008"Evergreen"2019"Another F*cken Fairy Tale"2020"Last Night at the Fair"2020
Awards 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story for Journey into the Kingdom 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection for Map of Dreams 2007 Crawford Award for Map of Dreams 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction “The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece” 2015 Locus Award for first novel The Memory Garden
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External links
An interview with M. Rickert Another brief interview A third interview Online texts of Rickert's stories "Anyway" and "The Girl Who Ate Butterflies" Golden Gryphon Press official site - About Map of Dreams