Greer Ilene Gilman (born 1951) is an American author of fantasy stories.
Biography
She was educated at Wellesley College and the University of Cambridge, where she studied on a Vida Dutton Scudder Fellowship.About Greer Gilman Her stories are noted for their dense prose style, which is strongly focused on native English roots, sometimes reminiscent of Gerard Manley Hopkins.Gregory Feeley, "Dickensian echoes, Baby Boomer woes and more in these fantastic tales both long and short," The Washington Post, July 27, 2003, p.T.13 Her characteristic themes are drawn from a mixture of North English and Scottish ballads and seasonal rituals, which she uses to create a complex mythology centered on the seasons and constellations of her fictional world of Cloud.Farah Mendlesohn, Rhetorics of fantasy (Wesleyan University Press, 2008; ), pp. 103–104
Her novel Moonwise, in which two women travel in a world they have created, won the Crawford Award for 1991.Locus Magazine SF Awards Index, 1992 Her collection of three stories, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales won the Tiptree Award in 2009,James Tiptree, Jr., Literary Award Council and has been shortlisted for the Mythopoeic Award in 2010.Mythopoeic Awards: 2010 Finalists Announced – June 1, 2010 Both are published by Small Beer Press. The novella "A Crowd of Bone" published in Trampoline: an anthology won the 2004 World Fantasy Awards. Her work has also been published in Salon Fantastique, The Faces of Fantasy, and Mythic Delirium. Her essay, "Girl, Implicated: The Child in the Labyrinth in the Fantastic" appeared in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol.19 no. 2. Her chapter on "The Languages of the Fantastic" appears in the Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature.The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, editors. (Cambridge University Press, 2012; )About Greer Gilman
References
External links Official site "A Crowd of Bone" by Greer Gilman, from the Trampoline anthology