Rachel Swirsky

Rachel Swirsky (born April 14, 1982, in San Jose, California) is an American literary, speculative fiction and fantasy writer, poet, and editor living in Oregon. She was the founding editor of the ''PodCastle'' podcast and served as editor from 2008 to 2010. She served as vice president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2013.

She has been published in such literary publications as ''PANK'', the ''Konundrum Engine Literary Review'', and the ''New Haven Review''. Her speculative fiction work has appeared in numerous markets including ''Tor.com'', ''Subterranean Magazine'', ''Beneath Ceaseless Skies'', ''Fantasy Magazine'', ''Interzone'', ''Realms of Fantasy'', and ''Weird Tales'', and collected in a variety of year's best anthologies, including Gardner Dozois's ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'', Rich Horton's ''The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy'', Jonathan Strahan's ''Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year,'' and Jeff & Ann VanderMeer's ''Best American Fantasy''.

Her novella "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window" won the 2011 Nebula Award. and was also a nominee for a 2011 Hugo Award and for the 2011 World Fantasy Award.

Swirsky's short story "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and was nominated for the Hugo award for best short story of 2013. Provided by Wikipedia