Elizabeth Hand

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Elizabeth Hand at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland.

Elizabeth Hand (b. March 29, 1957) is an American writer.

Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She studied drama and anthropology at The Catholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand has lived in coastal Maine, the setting for many of her stories. She also lives part-time in Camden Town, London which has been the setting for Mortal Love and the short story "Cleopatra Brimstone".

Hand's first story, "Prince of Flowers", was published in 1988 in Twilight Zone magazine, and her first novel, Winterlong, was published in 1990. With Paul Witcover, she created and wrote DC Comics' 1990s cult series Anima.^[1] Hand's other works are Aestival Tide (1992); Icarus Descending (1993); Waking the Moon (1994), which won the James Tiptree Jr. Award and Mythopoeic Society Award; the post-apocalypstic novel Glimmering (1997); contemporary fantasy Black Light (1999), a New York Times Notable Book; the historical fantasy Mortal Love (2004), a Washington Post Notable Book; and the psychological thriller Generation Loss (2007). Her story collections are Last Summer at Mars Hill (1998) (which includes the Nebula and World Fantasy award-winning title novella); Bibliomancy (2002), winner of the World Fantasy Award; and Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories, which includes the Nebula Award-winning "Echo"(2006). Mortal Love was also shortlisted for the 2005 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.

Among Hand's other recent short fiction, "Pavane for a Prince of the Air" (2002) and "Cleopatra Brimstone" (2001) won International Horror Guild Awards. ^[2]

She also writes movie and television spin-offs, including Star Wars tie-in novels and novelizations of such films as X-Files: Fight the Future and 12 Monkeys. She contributed a Bride of Frankenstein novel to the recent series of classic movie monster novels published by Dark Horse Comics.

1 Selected bibliography
2 Footnotes
3 References

[edit] Selected bibliography

[edit] Novels

1988 Winterlong - ISBN 0-553-28772-9
1992 Aestival Tide - ISBN 0-553-29542-X
1993 Icarus Descending - ISBN 0-553-56288-6
1994 Waking the Moon (longer UK edition) - ISBN 0-586-21747-9
1995 Waking the Moon (US edition preferred by the author[1]) - ISBN 0-06-105214-0
1997 Glimmering - ISBN 0-06-100805-2
1999 Black Light - ISBN 0-06-105266-3
2004 Mortal Love - ISBN 0-06-105170-5
2006 Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol (illustrated by Judith Clute; originally published December 2000) - ISBN 1-870824-49-0
2006 Illyria - ISBN-10: 1905834632, ISBN-13: 978-1905834631
2007 Generation Loss - ISBN 1-931520-21-6
2007 The Bride of Frankenstein - ISBN 1-59582-035-3

[edit] Collections

1998 Last Summer at Mars Hill - ISBN 0-06-105348-1
2003 Bibliomancy - ISBN 1-902880-73-0
2006 Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories - ISBN 1-59582-096-5

[edit] Uncollected short fiction

1990 "Jangletown" (with Paul Witcover; in The Further Adventures of The Joker)
1993 "Lucifer Over Lancaster" (with Paul Witcover; in The Further Adventures of Superman)