Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar (born December 13, 1984[1]) is a Canadian poet and writer of speculative fiction.[2] She has published short fiction, poetry, essays and reviews, and has edited the fantastic poetry quarterly magazine Goblin Fruit since 2006.[3]

Amal El-Mohtar
Born (1984-12-13) December 13, 1984
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
Notable awardsHugo Award for Best Short Story, Nebula Award for Best Short Story

El-Mohtar began reviewing science fiction and fantasy books for the New York Times Book Review in February 2018.[4] She has worked as a creative writing instructor at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa.[5] In 2018 she also served as a host on Brandon Sanderson’s creative writing podcast Writing Excuses for Season 13.[6]

Personal life

El-Mohtar was born in Ottawa, Ontario to a family of Lebanese descent. She grew up in Ottawa, with the exception of two years spent in Lebanon beginning when she was six years old.[7][1]

She married Stuart West (originally from Scotland) in 2015.[8]

Awards and honors

El-Mohtar has received the following awards:

Other awards her short fiction has been nominated for include the 2010 Nebula Award (for "The Green Book");[14] the 2016 Nebula Award (for "Madeleine");[15] the 2016 World Fantasy Award (for "Pockets");[16] and the 2017 World Fantasy Award (for "Seasons of Glass and Iron").[17]

Her book with Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War, won the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novella.[18][19]

Selected works

El-Mohtar’s full bibliography includes an extensive list of short stories, poems, essays, and reviews.[20]Her most notable works include a short story collection and novella.

  • The Honey Month, collected short fiction, Papaveria Press 2010; ISBN 978-1907881008
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War (with Max Gladstone), novella, 2019; ISBN 9781534431003
gollark: This prompt is waaaay too big and it wouldn't maintain a coherent story.
gollark: You realize that it can only consider something like 1024 tokens at once, right?
gollark: Oh, right, prompt it.
gollark: It's not really related though, GPT-whatever is almost certainly not actually simulating minds at any real fidelity.
gollark: I don't have enough GPU capacity at home to run anything like that and colab is annoying.

References
  1. "Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone: Letter Space". Locus. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  2. McDermott, J. M. (November 2011). "Nebula Awards Interview: Amal El-Mohtar". Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  3. El-Mohtar, Amal (25 October 2013). "Interview: Amal El-Mohtar". Amazing Stories (Interview). Interviewed by Diane Severson Mori. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  4. "Amal El-Mohtar Replaces N.K. Jemisin as The New York Times Book Review's Otherworldly Columnist". Tor.com. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  5. Blackmore, Olivia (15 August 2017). "Ottawa writer's 'fairy-tale mashup' wins prestigious Hugo Award for science-fiction". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  6. Writing Excuses podcast hosts https://writingexcuses.com/about-2/
  7. "Amal El-Mohtar, Pocket Interview No. 3". STORYOLOGICAL.
  8. Amal El-Mohtar https://amalelmohtar.com/2016/08/15/landing-myself-a-husband/. Retrieved 21 July 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. "SFPA Rhysling Award Archive". Archived from the original on 29 August 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  10. "2015 Locus Awards Winners". Locus. 27 June 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  11. "Announcing the 2016 Nebula Awards Winners". Tor.com. 21 May 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  12. "2015 Locus Awards Winners". Locus. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  13. "2017 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  14. "SFWA announces the 2010 Nebula Award Nominees". 22 February 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  15. "Nebula Awards". SFWA. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  16. "World Fantasy Awards 2016". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  17. "Nominees". World Fantasy Convention. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  18. "2019 Nebula Award Finalists Announced". The Nebula Awards®. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  19. Liptak, Andrew (30 May 2020). "Announcing the 2019 Nebula Awards Winners!". Tor.com. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  20. Full bibliography https://amalelmohtar.com/bibliography/
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