About Rachel Swirsky
She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she taught undergrad science fiction and fantasy writing as a teaching assistant at the University of Iowa. In 2005, she went to the Clarion West Writers workshop. Rachel, in addition to her fiction writing, also writes critical reviews, essays, and other non fiction. She has donated her writing to a number of charity anthologies. “Heat Engine” appeared in “Last Bird, Drink Head”, which is a flash fiction anthology supporting the ProLiteracy charity. In September of 2010, she contributed this story to the online chapbook story collection “Clash of the Geeks”, presented by Subterranean Press and supporting the Lupus Alliance of America. This comes after she grew up with a very volunteer-minded etho
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- January Fifteenth(2022)
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
11 books in seriesPublication Order
- A Memory of Wind(2009)
- The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window(2010)
- Eros, Philia, Agape(2010)
- The Monster's Million Faces(2010)
- Fields of Gold(2011)
- Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia(2012)
- If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love(2013)
- Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)(2014)
- Placed into Abyss(2020)
- Also, the Cat: A Tor.Com Original(2024)
- After the Invasion of the Bug-Eyed Aliens(2025)
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- How the World Became Quiet(2013)
Publication Order of Conversation Pieces Books
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- Through the Drowsy Dark(2010)
Publication Order of Oz Reimagined Books
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- Beyond the Naked Eye(2013)
Publication Order of Doctor Who Anthologies
17 books in seriesPublication Order
- More Short Trips(1999)
- Short Trips and Side Steps(2000)
- Companions(2003)
- Reprecussions(2004)
- Tales from the TARDIS: Volume 2: Multi-Doctor Stories(2004)
- Doctor Who: Short Trips: 2040(2004)
- The Solar System(2005)
- The Centenarian(2006)
- The Ghosts of Christmas(2007)
- Short Trips: Transmissions(2008)
- The Doctor Who Stories(2009)
- Queers Dig Time Lords(2013)
- Summer Falls and Other Stories(2013)
- Heroes and Monsters Collection(2015)
- The Twelve Doctors of Christmas(2016)
Publication Order of The WisCon Chronicles Books
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2(2008)
Publication Order of Anthologies
49 books in seriesPublication Order
- People of the Book(2007)
- The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1(2007)
- Fast Ships, Black Sails(2008)
- Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition(2008)
- The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2(2008)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009(2008)
- The Best of Abyss & Apex Volume One(2009)
- Triangulation: Dark Glass(2009)
- Time in a Bottle, Volume 1(2010)
- Bloody Fabulous(2010)
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2012(2010)
- Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction(2011)
- The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5(2011)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011(2011)
- The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities(2011)
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