Paul Park

Paul Park (b. 1954) is an American science fiction author and fantasy author. He lives in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children. He also teaches a Reading and Writing Science Fiction course at Williams College. He has also taught numerous times at the Clarion West Writing Workshop.

Park appeared on the American science fiction scene in 1987 and quickly established himself as a writer of polished, if often grim, literary science fiction. His first work was the Starbridge Chronicles trilogy, set on a world with generations-long seasons much like Brian Aldiss' Helliconia trilogy. His critically acclaimed novels have since dealt with colonialism on alien worlds (Coelestis), Biblical (Three Marys) and theosophical (The Gospel of Corax) legends, a parallel world where magic works (A Princess of Roumania and its sequels, The Tourmaline and The White Tyger), and other topics. He has published short stories in Omni Magazine, Interzone and other magazines.

Selected Bibliography

Series

• A Princess of Roumania
  • 1 A Princess of Roumania (2005)
  • 2 The Tourmaline (2006)

• The Starbridge Chronicles
  • The Sugar Festival (1989) [O]
  • 1 Soldiers of Paradise (1987)
  • 2 Sugar Rain (1989)
  • 3 The Cult of Loving Kindness (1991)

Novels

• Coelestis (1993)
  • Variant Title: Celestis (1993)
• The Gospel of Corax (1996)

Collections

• If Lions Could Speak (2002)

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