Pat Murphy

Pat Murphy (Patrice) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels. Her second novel, The Falling Woman (1986), won the Nebula Award, and she also won a Nebula Award in the same year for her novelette, "Rachel in Love." Her short story collection, Points of Departure (1990) won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and her 1991 novella, "Bones," won the World Fantasy Award.

She lives in San Francisco and, when not writing science fiction, works at the Exploratorium, San Francisco's museum of science, art, and human perception, and publishes non-fiction as part of the museum staff.

Together with Karen Joy Fowler, Murphy co-founded the Tiptree Award in 1991.

Selected Bibliography

Novels

• The Shadow Hunter (1982)
• The Falling Woman (1986)
• The City, Not Long After (1988)
• Nadya (1996)
• There and Back Again (1999)
• Wild Angel (2000)
• Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell (2001)

Collections

• Points of Departure (1989)

Anthologies

• Letters from Home (1991) with Karen Joy Fowler and Pat Cadigan
• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, The Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies (2004) with Karen Fowler Joy
• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 : Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies (2005) with Debbie Notkin and Karen Joy Fowler and Jeffrey D. Smith

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