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Tanya Huff | |
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 Tanya Huff atOhio Valley Filk Fest 2005 | |
| Born | 1957 (age 67–68) Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Genre | Fantasy, science fiction |
| Spouse | Fiona Patton |
Tanya Sue Huff (born 1957) is a Canadian fantasy author. Her stories have been published since the late 1980s, including five fantasy series and one science fiction series. One of these, herBlood Books series, featuring detective Vicki Nelson, was adapted for television under the titleBlood Ties.
Born inHalifax, Nova Scotia, Huff was raised inKingston, Ontario. Her first sale as a writer was toThe Picton Gazette when she was ten.[1][2] They paid $10 for two of her poems. Huff joined theCanadian Naval Reserve in 1975 as a cook, ending her service in 1979. In 1982 she received aBachelor of Applied Arts degree inRadio and Television Arts fromRyerson Polytechnical Institute inToronto,Ontario; she was in the same class as science-fiction writerRobert J. Sawyer and they collaborated on their finalTV Studio Lab assignment, a short science-fiction show.[citation needed]
In the early 1980s she worked at Mr. Gameway's Ark, a game store inDowntown Toronto. From 1984 to 1992 she worked atBakka, North America's oldest surviving science fiction book store, in Toronto.[3] During this time she wrote seven novels and nine short stories, many of which were subsequently published. Her first professional sale was toGeorge Scithers, the editor ofAmazing Stories in 1985, who bought her short story "Third Time Lucky".[1] She was a member of theBunch of Seven writing group. In 1992, after living for 13 years in downtown Toronto, she moved with her four large cats to rural Ontario, where she currently resides with her wife, fellow fantasy writerFiona Patton.[4][5]
Huff is one of the most prominent Canadian authors in the category ofcontemporary fantasy, a subgenre pioneered byCharles de Lint. Many of the scenes in her stories are near places where she has lived or frequented in Toronto, Kingston, and elsewhere. A prolific author, "she has written everything from horror to romantic fantasy to contemporary fantasy to humour to space opera."[6]
She appeared in a 2009 documentaryPretty Bloody: The Women of Horror.
TheCBC Television seriesBlood Ties was based on Huff's Vicki Nelson novels, and also aired in the United States onLifetime. It was produced byCHUM Television andKaleidoscope Entertainment. It was not picked up for a second season (which would have been the third season in the US).[7]
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