Biographical information
Name | Kathryn Cramer |
Biography | Kathryn Cramer is one of the editors of Hieroglyph. Her story “Am I Free to Go?” was recently published on Tor.com. With Edward Cornell, she is currently at work on a film adaptation of her story “You, in Emulation” which was published in Nature in 2011. She is a writer, critic, and anthologist, and was co-editor of the Year’s Best Fantasy and Year’s Best SF series. She has co-edited approximately 30 anthologies. She was a founding editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction, and has a large number of Hugo nominations in the Semiprozine category to show for it. She won a World Fantasy Award for her anthology The Architecture of Fear (1987). Her fiction has been published by Asimov’s, Nature and in anthologies. She grew up in Seattle. She holds a B.A. in Mathematics and a masters degree in American Studies, both from from Columbia University in New York. For five years, she taught writing at Harvard Summer School. More recently she has been a consultant for Wolfram Research, L. W. Currey, an antiquarian bookseller, and for ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination. She lives in Westport, New York in the Adirondack Park. |
Previous Works | Year’s Best SF series co-edited with David G. Hartwell: Year’s Best Fantasy series co-edited with David G. Hartwell: Other Anthologies Short Fiction |
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Best known for | The anthology The Ascent of Wonder (1995) and as an editor of Year’s Best volumes. As of September 2013, I am the person with the most Hugo Award nominations (17) without a win. |
Occupation | Editor |
Story Ideas and Burning Questions | I am expanding my story “You, in Emulation” into a feature length film script in collaboration with Edward Cornell. |