birth_place imagesize awards nationality notableworks birth_date period genre article_title name occupation
san jose , california september 2014 150px nebula award -lrb- 2010 , 2013 -rrb- american `` queen 's window , '' `` a memory of wind the , '' `` eros , philia , agape , '' lady `` if you were a dinosaur , my love '' who plucked red flowers beneath the 14 april 1982 2006 -- present science fiction , fantasy rachel swirsky
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rachel swirsky

rachel swirsky is an american literary , speculative fiction and fantasy writer , poet , and editor living in california .
she was the founding editor of the podcastle podcast and served as editor from 2008 to 2010 .
she served as vice president of the science fiction and fantasy writers of america in 2013 .
she has been published in such literary publications as pank , the konundrum engine literary review , and the new haven review .
her speculative fiction work has appeared in numerous markets including `` tor.com '' , `` subterranean magazine '' , `` beneath ceaseless skies '' , fantasy magazine , `` interzone '' , `` realms of fantasy '' , and weird tales , and collected in a variety of year 's best anthologies , including gardner dozois 's `` the year 's best science fiction '' , rich horton 's `` the year 's best science fiction & fantasy '' , jonathan strahan 's `` year 's best science fiction and fantasy of the year , '' and jeff & ann vandermeer 's `` best american fantasy '' .
her novella `` the lady who plucked red flowers beneath the queen 's window '' won the 2010 nebula award .
and was also a nominee for a 2011 hugo award and for the 2011 world fantasy award .
swirsky 's short story `` if you were a dinosaur , my love '' won the 2013 nebula award for best short story .
