Martha Soukup (born 20 July 1959 inAurora, Illinois)^[1] is ascience fiction author and playwright for theMonday Night PlayGround emerging playwrights group. In 2003, she won their annualJune Anne Baker Prize commission.

The 1994 short filmOverride, directed byDanny Glover, was based on hershort story "Over the Long Haul".

She attended theClarion science fiction writing workshop in 1985, with such other emerging SF talents asRobert J. Howe,Geoffrey A. Landis,Kristine Kathryn Rusch,William Shunn, andMary Turzillo.

She lives inSan Francisco,California.

• Rosemary's Brain: And Other Tales of Wonder (1992)

Wildside Press -ISBN 1-880448-08-4

With introduction byJohn Gregory Betancourt.

• Arbitrary Placement of Walls (1997)

Dreamhaven Books -ISBN 0-9630944-9-1 (Hardback) -ISBN 0-9630944-8-3 (Paperback)

Contains the Nebula-award winning story "A Defense of the Social Contracts". With introduction byNeil Gaiman.

• Plowshare - (1992) (collected inMike Resnick's alternate history anthologyAlternate Presidents)
• Rosemary’s Brain - (1992) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthologyAlternate Kennedys)
• Good Girl, Bad Dog - (1994) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthologyAlternate Outlaws)

• 1991: Nominee,Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "Over the Long Haul"
• 1991: Nominee,Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "Over the Long Haul"
• 1992: Nominee,Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Dog's Life"
• 1992: Nominee,Nebula Award for Best Short Story for "Dog's Life"
• 1993: Nominee,World Fantasy Award forBest Short Fiction for "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls"
• 1993: Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls"
• 1993: Nominee, Nebula Award for Best Short Story for "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls"
• 1994: Nominee, Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "Things Not Seen"
• 1994: Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "The Story So Far"
• 1995:Winner, Nebula Award for Best Short Story for "A Defense of the Social Contracts"

• Bibliography at Fantastic Fiction
• Martha Soukup atThe Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

• Martha Soukup at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database
• "Five Stories by Martha Soukup" - article from theNew York Review of Science Fiction by Ray Davis.
• The Arbitrary Placement of Walls - review by Susan Dunman inScience Fiction Weekly.
• Martha Soukup interview at The WELL

• 20th-century American short story writers
• American science fiction writers
• American women short story writers
• American women poets
• Nebula Award winners
• Living people
• 1959 births
• American women science fiction and fantasy writers
• 20th-century American women writers
• 21st-century American women

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