Carol
Emshwiller (b. 1921 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a writer of avant garde short
stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award
award to the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Ursula Le Guin has called her "a
major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex,
most consistently feminist voices in fiction." Among her novels are Carmen Dog
and The Mount. She has also written two cowboy novels called Ledoyt and Leaping
Man Hill.
She is the widow of the artist and experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller.
In 2005, she was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
Carol
Emshwiller (b. 1921 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a writer of avant garde short
stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award
award to the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Ursula Le Guin has called her "a
major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex,
most consistently feminist voices in fiction." Among her novels are Carmen Dog
and The Mount. She has also written two cowboy novels called Ledoyt and Leaping
Man Hill.