birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name
new york city , ny american 28 december 1942 eleanor arnason
 eleanor atwood arnason
eleanor arnason

eleanor atwood arnason -lrb- born december 28 , 1942 -rrb- is an american author of science fiction novels and short stories .
arnason 's earliest published story , `` a clear day in the motor city , '' appeared in `` new worlds '' in 1973 .
her work often depicts cultural change and conflict , usually from the viewpoint of characters who can not or will not live by their own societies ' rules .
this anthropological focus has led many to compare her fiction to that of ursula k. le guin .
arnason won the first james tiptree , jr. .
award , the mythopoeic award -lrb- for `` a woman of the iron people '' -rrb- , the spectrum award -lrb- for `` dapple '' -rrb- and the homer award -lrb- for her novelette `` stellar harvest '' -rrb- .
`` stellar harvest '' was also nominated for a hugo award in 2000 .
in 2003 , she was nominated for two nebula awards , for her novella `` potter of bones '' and her short story `` knapsack poems . ''
in 2004 , she was guest of honor at wiscon .
she lives in minnesota .
