AUTHOR BIOS
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Marian Womack is the bilingual author of the novels The Swimmers, The Golden Key and On the Nature of Magic. Her short fiction has been collected in Lost Objects and Out Through The Window, Into The Dark. She lives in Cambridge (UK) and is an amateur printer and bookbinder.
Press BIO (<150 words)
Marian Womack is a bilingual writer of Weird fiction, speculative and hybrid fiction, and fiction of the Anthropocene. Her writing features strange landscapes, ghostly encounters and uncanny transformations. She has published the Andalusia-set novel The Swimmers (2021), selected as one of the best ten SF books of 2021 by The Sunday Times. She is also the author of the Walton & Waltraud uncanny mystery series, which includes The Golden Key (2020), On the Nature of Magic (2023), and the forthcoming Casting the Ruins (2025). Her short fiction has been collected in Lost Objects (2018), nominated to two British Fantasy Awards and one British Science Fiction Association Award, and in the forthcoming Out Through The Window, Into The Dark. She lives in Cambridge (UK).
Full BIO
Marian Womack is a bilingual writer. She has worked in academic libraries for more than a decade, as well as working as an editor, translator, and occasional bookseller. She has taught creative writing, publishing studies and book history in Spain and the UK, and taught on the Oxford University MSt writing programme for four years.
Marian writes in Spanish and English. In Spanish she has published the story-cycle Memoria de la nieve (Tropo Editores, 2011) and, together with Sofía Rhei, the YA novel Calle Andersen (La Galera, 2014), a continuation of Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen’. Her writing has appeared in more than 20 anthologies and magazines, including weird fiction mag Presencia Humana, Steampunk series Ácronos, and bilingual mag SuperSonic. She has also translated authors such as Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Lord Dunsany, Lisa Tuttle or Daphne du Maurier into Spanish.
In English she has published speculative and hybrid fiction and poetry in Year’s Best Weird Fiction (Undertow, 2016), Spanish Women of Wonder (Palabaristas, 2016), EcoPunk! Speculative tales of radical futures (Ticonderoga, 2017), The Silent Garden Collective (2018), The Shadow Booth, Vol. 4 (2019), Apex Mag, Weird Fiction Review and LossLit among others. Her writing has been included in the Earth Day 2019 installation in Somerset House alongside work by Timothy Morton, Greta Thunberg, and Zadie Smith. She has contributed translations into English for The Apex Book of World SF, and the VanderMeers’ anthologies The Big Book of SF, The Big Book of Classical Fantasy, and The Big Book of Modern Fantasy. She has written non-fiction for The Times Literary Supplement, the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Network, New Internationalist and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and is a contributor to the recent Writing the Future. Essays on Crafting Science Fiction (2023). Her first videogame collaboration, A Place for the Unwilling, was released in 2021.
Marian has published one short story collection in English, Lost Objects (Luna Press, 2018; reissued by Calque Press, 2023), and the science fiction novel The Swimmers (Titan Books, 2021). She has also written two Gothic mysteries from the Victorian female-detective series Walton & Waltraud, Inquiry Agents, The Golden Key, (Titan Books, 2020), and On the Nature of Magic (Titan Books, 2023). She co-edited with Gary Budden the international ecofiction anthology An Invite to Eternity: Tales of Nature Disrupted (Calque Press, 2019).
The first Spanish graduate of the San Diego Clarion Writers’ Workshop, Marian holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Environmental Humanities, and degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, and Glasgow Universities. She lives in Cambridge (UK) with her Spanish rescue cat, her husband the poet James Womack, and their children. She enjoys bookbinding, and printing in her Victorian Columbian press.
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