Elizabeth Hand

American writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1957 · age 69

Elizabeth Hand is an American writer.

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A life in dates

2018Inkpot AwardAward2015“He even taught himself to play the viole de gambols, a true sign of a man with too much time on his hands.”In their wordsChapter 3Read the whole statement

“Truth is, often Lesley got the fuzzy end of the lollypop.”In their wordsChapter 13Read the whole statement

Shirley Jackson Award for NovellaAward2011Shirley Jackson Award for NovellaAwardWorld Fantasy Award for Best NovellaAward2008World Fantasy Award for Best NovellaAward2007“I liked being alone. Once when I was fourteen, walking in the woods, I stepped from the trees into a field where the long grasses had been flattened by sleeping deer.”In their wordsCh. 1Read the whole statement

“Several months later I had this dream. I was kneeling in the field where I'd seen the eye.”In their wordsCh. 1Read the whole statement

Shirley Jackson AwardAwardShirley Jackson Award for NovelAward2004“I worked at the Smithsonian for a number of years. I had a very low-level job.”In their words29 November 2004Interview by Cheryl Morgan at Strange HorizonsRead the whole statement

“Faeries might have been wandering around in Victorian England. I can believe that. But it is a more difficult thing to think that they might be wandering around Camden Town now.”In their words29 November 2004Interview by Cheryl Morgan at Strange HorizonsRead the whole statement

World Fantasy Award for Best CollectionAward1996Mythopoeic AwardsAwardMythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult LiteratureAwardNebula Award for Best NovellaAward1995Otherwise AwardAwardWorld Fantasy Award for Best NovellaAwardWorld Fantasy AwardsAward1957Born29 March 1957

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Elizabeth Hand

4 statements, newest first

I couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t blink. Couldn’t hear a thing, not them talking or the wind or the truck driving off or bees.
2015 · Chapter 5, Own words
I had from earliest childhood a sense that there was no skin between me and the world. I saw things other people didn't see.
2007 · Ch. 1, Own words
It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.
2007 · Ch. 1, Own words