Molly Gloss

Molly Gloss (born November 20, 1944) is an American writer of historical fiction and science fiction.

Molly Gloss
Gloss at Eastern Oregon University in 2012
Born	(1944-11-20) November 20, 1944 (age 80)
Occupation	Writer
Genre	Historical science fiction
Notable awards	Ken Kesey Award 1990 The Jump-Off Creek Whiting Award 1996 in Fiction James Tiptree, Jr. Award 2000 Wild Life

Life

Gloss grew up in rural Oregon and began writing seriously when she became a mother.^[1] She now lives in Portland, Oregon, and was close friends with fellow science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin. She has taught writing and literature of the American West at Portland State University, and currently is on the faculty of the Pacific University MFA program.^[2]

Awards and nominations

• The Jump-Off Creek was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and won both the 1990 Ken Kesey Award for the Novel and 1990 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award^[3]
• 1996 Whiting Award in Fiction^[4]
• Wild Life was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and won the 2000 James Tiptree, Jr. Award for work that explores or expands notions of gender^[5]
• The Hearts of Horses was a finalist for the 2008 Oregon Book Award^[6]
• “The Grinnell Method” won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for the short story in 2013^[7]
• Unforeseen was a World Fantasy finalist in 2020^[7]
• In 2021 Molly received the C.E.S. Wood Award “in recognition of an enduring, substantial literary career”^[7]

Bibliography

Novels

• Outside the Gates. Atheneum. 1986. ISBN 978-0-689-31275-5.
• The Jump-Off Creek. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1989. ISBN 978-0-618-56587-0.
• The Dazzle of Day. Macmillan. 1998. ISBN 978-0-312-86437-8.
• Wild Life. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2000. ISBN 978-0-618-13157-0.
• The Hearts of Horses. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2007. ISBN 978-0-618-79990-9.
• Falling from Horses. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2014. ISBN 978-0-544-27929-2.

Stories

• Unforeseen. Simon & Schuster. 2019. ISBN 978-1-481-49851-7.

Anthologies

• Beverly McFarland, ed. (1998). "The Doe". A Line of Cutting Women. CALYX Books. ISBN 978-0-934971-62-1.
• Kim Barnes; Mary Clearman Blew, eds. (2001). "from Jump Off Creek". Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3367-6.

Notable short fiction

• "Personal Silence", 1990 (reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction 1991)
• "Lambing Season", 2002 (nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Short Story and a Nebula Award for Best Short Story)

References

1. Gloss, Molly (May 1, 2007). "On becoming a writer". Retrieved May 25, 2013.
2. Molly Gloss, personal communication, August 17, 2023.
3. "1990 Book Awards". Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Archived from the original on June 21, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
4. "Molly Gloss". Whiting Foundation. Retrieved September 5, 2022.
5. "2000 Otherwise Award". James Tiptree Jr. Literary Award Council. Retrieved September 5, 2022.
6. Baker, Jeff (September 8, 2008). "Oregon Book Award finalists". The Oregonian. Retrieved September 5, 2022.
7. Molly Gloss, personal communication, August 22, 2023.

External links

• mollygloss.com (official site)
• Review of The Dazzle of Day by Jo Walton
• Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). "Outside the Gates". Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-3529-2.
• Gregory L. Morris (1995). Talking Up a Storm: Voices of the New West. University of Nebraska Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-8032-8224-7.
• Guide to the Molly Gloss papers at the University of Oregon.
• Molly Gloss at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation