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Ellen Kushner

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Ellen Kushner weaves together multiple careers as a writer, radio host, teacher, performer and public speaker.

A graduate of Barnard College, she also attended Bryn Mawr College, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She began her career in publishing as a fiction editor in New York City, but left to write her first novel Swordspoint, which has become a cult classic, hailed as the progenitor of the “mannerpunk” (or “Fantasy of Manners”) school of urban fantasy. Swordspoint was followed by Thomas the Rhymer (World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award), and two more novels in her “Riverside” series. In 2015, Thomas the Rhymer was published in the UK as part of the Gollancz “Fantasy Masterworks” line.

In addition, her short fiction appears regularly
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New Swordspoint Story, Last-Minute Gifts, and a Riddle

I'm not usually much of a short story writer, but I just published a new one in the new anthology "Silk & Steel," edited by Janine A. Southard. It's another in the "family saga" that my first novel, Swordspoint, seems to have spawned. You can get it as a last-minute gift for someone in e-book form.

And speaking of last-minute gifts. . . . Here is my new riddle:

I am the gift that cannot be wrapped.
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“Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.”
Ellen Kushner, Swordspoint

“Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.”
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“There's the road to heaven, and there's the road to hell, and there? That's the road to Faerie.”
Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer

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