Alix E. Harrow | |
Birth Date: | 9 November 1989 |
Birth Place: | Idaho, United States |
Occupation: | Writer, professor |
Genre: | Science fiction, speculative fiction |
Years Active: | 2014–present |
Education: | Berea College (BA) University of Vermont (MA) |
Awards: | Hugo–Short Story (2019) BFA–Fantasy Novel (2021) |
Notable Works: | "A Witch's Guide to Escape" (2018) The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019) |
Alix E. Harrow (born November 9, 1989) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her short fiction work "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" has been nominated for the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award, and in 2019 won a Hugo Award. Her debut novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019), was widely acclaimed by mainstream critics, lauded by general audiences during voting at Goodreads Choice Awards and Locus Awards, and nominated for multiple first novel literary awards and speculative fiction awards. She has also published under the name Alix Heintzman.
Alix E. Harrow was born on November 9, 1989, in the United States and grew up in Kentucky.[1] She enrolled at Berea College at age sixteen, where she completed a bachelor's degree in history in three years.[2] She then went on to earn a master's degree in history from the University of Vermont. Before working as a full-time writer, Harrow was an academic historian who taught as an adjunct professor of African and African American history at Eastern Kentucky University.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Her first novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019), was received with critical acclaim and nominated for multiple awards, including the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award for best novel.[9] [10] [11] A second novel, The Once and Future Witches (2020), won a British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award).[12] [13] [14] A more recent novella, A Spindle Splintered (2021), was nominated for a Hugo Award for best novella.
Harrow has also written short fiction for Shimmer Magazine, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and Apex Magazine. This has produced a Hugo Award–winning 2018 short story called "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" (published by Apex).
Harrow lives in Virginia.[15]
2019 | "A Witch's Guide to Escape" | Eugie Award | — | ||
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Hugo Award | Short Story | [16] | |||
Locus Award | Short Story | ||||
Nebula Award | Short Story | ||||
World Fantasy Award | Short Fiction | ||||
WSFA Small Press Award | — | ||||
The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Goodreads Choice Awards | Debut | |||
Favorite Fantasy Novel | Fantasy | ||||
Nebula Award | Novel | ||||
2020 | Audie Award | Fantasy | |||
Female Narration | |||||
BFA | Fantasy Novel | ||||
Newcomer | |||||
Compton Crook Award | — | ||||
— | |||||
Dragon Awards | Science Fiction Novel | ||||
Hugo Award | Novel | ||||
Kitschies | Golden Tentacle (Debut) | ||||
Locus Award | First Novel | ||||
Mythopoeic Awards | Adult Literature | ||||
World Fantasy Award | Novel | ||||
"Do Not Look Back, My Lion" | Hugo Award | Short Story | |||
2021 | The Once and Future Witches | BFA | Fantasy Novel | ||
Dragon Awards | Fantasy Novel | ||||
Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | ||||
"The Sycamore and the Sybil" | Eugie Award | — | |||
Locus Award | Short Story | ||||
2022 | A Spindle Splintered | BFA | Novella | ||
Hugo Award | Novella | ||||
Locus Award | Novella | ||||
"Mr. Death" | Hugo Award | Short Story | |||
Locus Award | Short Story | ||||
Nebula Award | Short Story |
Novellas