Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand atFinncon 2007 inJyväskylä, Finland
Born	(1957-03-29)March 29, 1957 (age 68) Yonkers, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Alma mater	Catholic University of America
Genre	Science fiction,Fantasy
Website
elizabethhand.com

Elizabeth Hand (born March 29, 1957) is an American writer.

Hand grew up inYonkers andPound Ridge, New York. She studied drama andanthropology at theCatholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand has lived in coastalMaine, the setting for many of her stories, and as of 2000 lives inLincolnville.^[1] She also lives part-time inCamden Town,London which has been the setting forMortal Love and the short story "Cleopatra Brimstone".

Hand's first published story, "Prince of Flowers", appeared in 1988 inThe Twilight Zone Magazine,^[2][3] and her first novel,Winterlong, was published in 1990. With Paul Witcover, she created and wroteDC Comics' 1990scult seriesAnima.^[4] Hand's other works includeAestival Tide (1992);Icarus Descending (1993);Waking the Moon (1994), which won theTiptree Award and theMythopoeic Fantasy Award; thepost-apocalyptic novelGlimmering (1997); contemporaryfantasyBlack Light (1999), aNew York Times Notable Book; thehistorical fantasyMortal Love (2004), aWashington Post Notable Book; thepsychological thrillerGeneration Loss (2007), and theWorld Fantasy Award-winning "The Maiden Flight of McCauley'sBellerophon". Her story collections areLast Summer at Mars Hill (1998) (which includes the Nebula and World Fantasy award-winning title novella);Bibliomancy (2002), winner of the World Fantasy Award;^[5] andSaffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories, which includes the Nebula Award-winning "Echo" (2006).Mortal Love was also shortlisted for the 2005 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.

Among Hand's other recent short fiction, "Pavane for a Prince of the Air" (2002) and "Cleopatra Brimstone" (2001) won International Horror Guild Awards.^[6] Most recently, she won theShirley Jackson Award forGeneration Loss and theWorld Fantasy Award in 2008 forIllyria,^[5] and theInkpot Award in 2018.^[7]

She also writes movie and television spin-offs, includingStar Wars tie-in novels and novelizations of such films asThe X-Files and12 Monkeys. She contributed aBride of Frankenstein novel to the recent series of classic movie monster novels published byDark Horse Comics.

One of Hand's themes from theWinterlong saga is the remorseless exploitation of animal and plant species to create what she calls "geneslaves." Examples include a three-hundred-year-old genetically reconstructed and cerebrally augmentedBasilosaurus by the name of Zalophus; the aardmen, hybrids of dog and man; hydrapithecenes, human-fish or human-cuttlefish hybrids somewhat resemblingDavy Jones and his crew from thePirates of the Caribbean film series; and sagittals, whelks genetically engineered to be worn as a bracelet and, when its host feels threatened or agitated, extrude a spine laced with a deadlyneurotoxin.

Hand is a longtime reviewer and critic forThe Washington Post,Los Angeles Times,Boston Review,Salon, andVillage Voice, among others. She also writes a regularreview column forThe Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

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• 1988Winterlong –ISBN 0-553-28772-9
• 1992 Aestival Tide –ISBN 0-553-29542-X
• 1993Icarus Descending –ISBN 0-553-56288-6
• 1994Waking the Moon (longer UK edition) –ISBN 0-586-21747-9
• 1995Waking the Moon (US edition preferred by the author[1]) –ISBN 0-06-105214-0
• 1997Glimmering (second edition 2012) –ISBN 0-06-100805-2
• 1999Black Light –ISBN 0-06-105266-3
• 2000 "Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol" inSci Fiction
• 2002 "Cleopatra Brimstone" inRedshift
• 2003 "The Least Trumps" inConjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists
• 2004Mortal Love^[8] –ISBN 0-06-105170-5
• 2006Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol (illustrated by Judith Clute; originally published December 2000) –ISBN 1-870824-49-0. The story is a tribute to entertainersSandy Becker andJoey Ramone. Anonline edition ofChip Crockett's Christmas Carol was serialized by Hand on her Livejournal community "theinferior4".
• 2006Illyria –ISBN 1-905834-63-2,ISBN 978-1-905834-63-1
• 2007The Bride of Frankenstein (media tie-in) –ISBN 1-59582-035-3
• 2012Radiant Days
• 2015Wylding Hall(Novella)
• 2019Curious Toys
• 2022Hokuloa Road
• 2023A Haunting on the Hill (a sequel toShirley Jackson'sThe Haunting of Hill House)

• 2007Generation Loss –ISBN 1-931520-21-6
• 2012Available Dark –ISBN 978-0312585945
• 2016Hard Light –ISBN 978-1250030382
• 2020The Book of Lamps and Banners –ISBN 978-0316485937

• 2003Boba Fett: Maze Of Deception –ISBN 0-439-44245-1
• 2003Boba Fett: Hunted –ISBN 0-439-33930-8
• 2004Boba Fett: A New Threat –ISBN 0-439-33931-6
• 2004Boba Fett: Pursuit –ISBN 0-439-33933-2

• 199512 Monkeys –ISBN 0-06-105658-8
• 1997Millennium: The Frenchman –ISBN 0-06-105800-9
• 1998The X-Files: Fight the Future –ISBN 0-06-105932-3
• 1999Anna and the King –ISBN 0-06-102045-1
• 2001The Affair of the Necklace –ISBN 0-06-107616-3
• 2004Catwoman –ISBN 0-345-47652-2

Collections

• 1998Last Summer at Mars Hill –ISBN 0-06-105348-1
• 2003Bibliomancy –ISBN 1-902880-73-0
• 2006Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories –ISBN 1-59582-096-5
• 2012Errantry –ISBN 1618730304
• 2021The Best of Elizabeth Hand

Stories

(Uncollected)

• 1998The Darcy Bee
• 2003The Girl With No Name
• 2004The Poet and the Inkmaker's Daughter
• 2006From Mortal Love
• 2018Farrow Street
• 2021For Sale by Owner
• 2023The Seventh Bride, or Female Curiosity

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• The Fantastic Spectrum of Elizabeth Hand (interview),Clarkesworld Magazine, November 2009
• Interview at Tor.com, August 24, 2010
• Elizabeth Hand atLibrary of Congress, with 29 library catalog records

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