# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/teresa-nielsen-hayden
# Generated: 2026-08-16T09:14:50.069Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/teresa-nielsen-hayden"
name: "Teresa Nielsen Hayden"
slug: "teresa-nielsen-hayden"
description: "Teresa Nielsen Hayden is an American science fiction editor, fanzine writer, essayist, and workshop instructor. She is a consulting editor for Tor Books and is well known for her weblog, Making Light. She has also worked for Federated Media Publishing, when in 2007 she was hired to revive the comment section for the blog Boing Boing. Nielsen Hayden has been nominated for Hugo Awards five times."
tagline: "American science fiction editor and essayist (1956-)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
  name: "Writers"
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-03-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.744097333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.nielsenhayden.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump