Alix E. Harrow (born November 9, 1989) is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award, and in 2019 she won a Hugo Award for her story "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies". She has published under the name Alix Heintzman.
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Born | November 9, 1989 Idaho, United States |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Berea College '09 (B.A. History) University of Vermont (M.A. History) |
Genre | Sci-fi, speculative fiction |
Years active | 2014 – Present |
Notable works | "A Witch's Guide to Escape" (2018) The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019) |
Notable awards | Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2019) BFA for Best Fantasy Novel (2021) |
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Alix E. Harrow was born in 1989 in the United States and grew up in Kentucky.[1] She enrolled at Berea College at age sixteen, where she completed a bachelor's degree in history in three years.[1][2] She then went on to earn a master's degree in history from the University of Vermont.[1] Before working as a full-time writer, Harrow was an academic historian who taught as an adjunct professor of African and African American history at Eastern Kentucky University.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
Her first novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019), was received with critical acclaim and nominated for multiple awards, including the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award for best novel.[9][10][11] A second novel, The Once and Future Witches (2020), won a British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award).[12][13][14] A more recent novella, A Spindle Splintered (2021), has been nominated for a Hugo Award for best novella.
Harrow has also written short fiction for Shimmer, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and Apex. This has produced a Hugo award winning 2018 short story called "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" (published by Apex).
Harrow lives in Virginia[15] with her husband, Nick Stiner, and two children.
Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result | Ref |
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2019 | Hugo | Hugo—Short Story | "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" | Won | [16] |
Nebula | Nebula—Short Story | Nominated | [16] | ||
World Fantasy Awards | WFA—Short Fiction | Nominated | [16] | ||
Locus | Locus—Short Story | 6th | [16] | ||
Eugie | Short Fiction | Finalist | [16] | ||
2020 | Hugo | Hugo—Novel | The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Nominated | [16][9] |
Nebula | Nebula—Novel | Nominated | [16][10] | ||
World Fantasy Awards | WFA—Novel | Nominated | [16][11] | ||
BFA | Fantasy Novel | Nominated | [16] | ||
BFA | Best Newcomer | Nominated | [16] | ||
Dragon Awards | Sci-fi Novel | Nominated | [16] | ||
Locus | Locus—First Novel | 3rd | [16] | ||
Hugo | Hugo—Short Story | "Do Not Look Back, My Lion" | Nominated | [16] | |
2021 | BFA | Fantasy Novel | The Once and Future Witches | Won | [12][13][14] |
Dragon Awards | Fantasy Novel | Nominated | [16] | ||
Locus | Locus—Fantasy Novel | 5th | [16] | ||
Eugie | Short Fiction | "The Sycamore and the Sybil" | Finalist | [16] | |
Locus | Locus—Short Story | 6th | [16] | ||
2022 | Hugo | Hugo—Novella | A Spindle Splintered | Nominated | [16] |
Locus | Locus—Novella | 4th | [16] | ||
Hugo | Hugo—Short Story | "Mr. Death" | Nominated | [16] | |
Nebula | Nebula—Short Story | Nominated | [16] | ||
Locus | Locus—Short Story | 2nd | [16] |
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