birth_place pseudonym nationality birth_date genre article_title name occupation
port washington , wisconsin , usa m. rickert american 11 december 1959 science fiction , fantasy m. rickert
 mary rickert writer
m. rickert

mary rickert , known as m. rickert -lrb- december 11 , 1959 in port washington , wisconsin -rrb- , 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 .
on november 10 , 2015 , small beer press will publish rickert 's third collection , `` you have never been here '' , containing selected stories from her first two collections , as well as three new stories , one of them a novella .
