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Juliet E. McKenna (born 1965) is a British fantasy author. Her novels mostly form part of series, five series as of 2022.
Juliet McKenna | |
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_87_(cropped).jpg) Juliet E. McKenna at Swecon in Stockholm, 2024. | |
| Born | 1965 Lincolnshire, England |
| Pen name | Juliet E. McKenna |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | English |
| Period | 1999– |
| Genre | Fantasy |
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McKenna was born in Lincolnshire in 1965, and studied Greek and Roman history and literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford.[1] After college McKenna had a career in personnel management before a changing to work in book-selling. She also fitted in becoming a mother around her writing.[2] McKenna is one of the British boom of fantasy writers.[3][4]
McKenna also writes historical murder mysteries as "J. M. Alvey'.[5]
As well as her various novel series McKenna writes articles and reviews for magazines.[6][7] She has worked as a judge for various awards such as the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2013, the 2011 James White Award and the World Fantasy Awards in 2018.[8][9][10][11] McKenna is also a contributing editor for the Irish anthology magazine Albedo One.[12] In 2013 McKenna was the chair of the British National Science Fiction Convention, EightSquaredCon.[13][14] She was also one of the authors, along with others such as Sarah Ash and Mark Chadbourn, behind The Write Fantastic,[15] which was an initiative by a group of fantasy authors to promote the fantasy genre, and to display the scope of current fantasy writing.[16][17][18] McKenna joined forces with a group of micro business owners to form EU VAT ACTION resolve the VAT issue caused by the EU VAT regulations which came into force on 1 January 2015. She spent considerable time working with businesses and experts in the UK and EU to create a way that small businesses online could work with the VAT regulations.[19][20][21][22]
She regularly attends fantasy conventions and hosted FantasyCon 2015's awards night, gives talks, and teaches creative writing courses.[23][24][25]
Financial Times reviewer James Lovegrove described McKenna's 2012 She-who-thinks-for-herself, as "a cunning, funny... feminist rewrite" of H. Rider Haggard's She: A History of Adventure.[26]
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