Carol Emshwiller (1921-2019) published her first short story in 1955, and became a regular contributor to science fiction and fantasy magazines as well as literary journals. Her books include the World Fantasy Award-winning collectionThe Start of the End of It All, the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novelThe Mount, and two volumes ofCollected Stories. Her short stories won a Pushcart Prize and two Nebula Awards, and in 2005 she received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
“Carol Emshwiller’s stories are wonder-filled, necessary, and beautifully crafted.” —Samuel R. Delany ""Gifted."" —New York Times ""If someone were to compile one of those futile lists of the top hundred writers in the world right Now! I’d have to hack into the results and replace the name of one of the politely-angry young men in the top ten with Carol Emshwiller’s.— Gavin J. Grant “Emshwiller’s readers know her to be a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction.” — Ursula K. Le Guin “Carol Emshwiller’s imagination is fierce and funny, never mean. She creates people, situations, and combinations of words that make me read her sentences and paragraphs again and again for the sheer pleasure of reading.” —Grace Paley