Andy Duncan (born September 21, 1964) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose work frequently deals with Southern U.S. themes.
Biography Duncan was born in Batesburg, South Carolina and graduated from high school from W. Wyman King Academy. He earned a degree in journalism from the University of South Carolina and worked for seven years at the Greensboro News & Record.
Duncan earned an M.A. in creative writing (fiction) from North Carolina State University and an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Alabama. He also attended Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1994.
In Fall 2008, he was hired as an assistant professor of English at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland.
His novelette "Close Encounters" won the 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. His novelette "An Agent of Utopia" was a finalist for the 2018 Nebula Award.
His fiction has appeared in a number of venues, including Asimov's Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, Sci Fiction, and Escape Pod. He has also published poetry, essays, and reviews.
Professional activities In October 2022, Andy Duncan was a guest on the Maryland State Library Agency podcast in the episode titled "Spooky Maryland Stories with Andy Duncan".
He was a senior editor at Overdrive, a magazine for truck drivers, from 2003 to 2008.
Duncan was an instructor at Clarion Workshop in 2004 and 2013, and at Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2005.
He has frequently given readings and spoken on panels at such venues as the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, held each spring in Florida.
Duncan starred as the main character, Counter, in a live dramatization of Jeanne Beckwith's one-act play The Back Room, performed with award-winning authors John Kessel and James K. Morrow, author and scholar F. Brett Cox, writer and critic Fiona Kelleghan, Sydney Sowers, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer expert Rhonda V. Wilcox. The play was presented at the 17th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 19, 1999.
Personal life Duncan currently lives with his wife Sydney in Frostburg, Maryland along with a 17 year old dog Lily, and cats Bella and Hilary.
Awards He has won the Theodore Sturgeon Award. and three World Fantasy Awards, and has been nominated for Hugo, Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award. The Night Cache was nominated in the Best Novella category for a 2010 World Fantasy Award.
Work Year & Award Category Result Ref."Beluthahatchie"1998 Hugo AwardShort Story1998 Asimov's Readers' PollShort Story1998 Astounding AwardNew Writer"The Genetic Engineer Throws a Cocktail Party and Drinks Too Much"1999 Asimov's Readers' PollPoem"The Executioners' Guild"1999 HOMer AwardNovella1999 International Horror Guild AwardLong Fiction2000 Nebula AwardNovella2000 Asimov's Readers' PollNovella2000 Locus AwardNovella"Green Fire" (with Eileen Gunn, Pat Murphy & Michael Swanwick)2001 Asimov's Readers' PollNovellaBeluthahatchie and Other Stories2001 World Fantasy AwardCollection2001 Locus AwardCollection"Fenneman's Mouth"2001 Locus AwardShort Story"Fortitude"2001 Nebula AwardNovella"The Pottawatomie Giant"2001 World Fantasy AwardShort Fiction2001 Locus AwardNovelette2002 Nebula AwardNovelette"Lincoln in Frogmore"2001 World Fantasy AwardShort Fiction2001 Locus AwardNovelette2002 Asimov's Readers' PollNovelette"Senator Bilbo"2002 Locus AwardShort Story"The Chief Designer"2002 Hugo AwardNovella2002 Theodore Sturgeon AwardShort Science Fiction2002 Locus AwardNovella2002 Asimov's Readers' PollNovella2003 Nebula AwardNovella"The Big Rock Candy Mountain"2003 Locus AwardNovelette"Daddy Mention and the Monday Skull"2004 Locus AwardShort Story"Zora and the Zombie"2004 Bram Stoker AwardLong Fiction2005 Locus AwardShort Story2005 Nebula AwardNovelette"Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse"2007 Shirley Jackson AwardShort Story2008 Nebula AwardShort Story2008 Locus AwardShort Story"A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or The Devil's Ninth Question"2008 Locus AwardNovelette"The Night Cache"2009 Shirley Jackson AwardNovelette2010 World Fantasy AwardNovella"The Dragaman's Bride"2010 Locus AwardNovelette"Slow as a Bullet"2012 Locus AwardShort Story"Close Encounters"2013 Nebula AwardNovelette2013 Locus AwardNoveletteThe Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories2013 Locus AwardCollection2013 Shirley Jackson AwardCollection"Wakulla Springs" (with Ellen Klages)2014 Hugo AwardNovella2014 Nebula AwardNovella2014 World Fantasy AwardNovella2014 Locus AwardNovella"An Agent of Utopia"2019 Nebula AwardNovelette2019 Locus AwardNoveletteAn Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories2019 World Fantasy AwardCollection2019 Locus AwardCollection"Charlie Tells Another One"2020 Asimov's Readers' PollNovelette2021 Science Fiction Research AssociationMary Kay Bray Award
Bibliography
Novels The Night Cache (stand-alone novella), 2009, PS Publishing, ()
Collections An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories, Small Beer Press, 2018 () The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories, PS Publishing, 2011 () Beluthahatchie and Other Stories, Golden Gryphon Press, 2000 ()
Edited works Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (with F. Brett Cox), Tor Books, 2004 ()
Nonfiction Alabama Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Globe Pequot, 2005 ()
References
External links
2000 Interview at Infinity Plus 2001 Interview excerpt at Locus Magazine Complete bibliography