Background Information on Pat Murphy
I have won a number of awards for my fiction writing. My second novel, The Falling Woman, won the Nebula for best novel published in 1987. That same year, my novelette "Rachel in Love" won a Nebula, the Isaac
Asimov Reader's Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. In 1990,
my short story collection, Points of Departure (Bantam), won the
1990 Philip K. Dick Award for best paperback original. In 1991, my novella
"Bones" won the 1991 World Fantasy Award. My novelette, An American
Childhood, published by Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, was a finalist
on the Hugo ballot. My most recent novel is Nadya—The Wolf Chronicles. It's available in hardcover and paperback from Tor Books. I recently completed There and Back Again, the first novel in a set of three books scheduled for publication by Tor Books in November.
When I'm not writing science fiction, I write for the Exploratorium, San
Francisco's museum of science, art, and human perception. Many of the artworks
featured in my third novel, The City, Not Long After, were inspired
by art and artists at the Exploratorium. This museum, founded by Dr. Frank
Oppenheimer (brother to Robert Oppenheimer and therefore the uncle of the
Atom Bomb), is a breeding ground for art that makes people take notice of
the world around them, learning to look and listen in a new way. The books
I have published as part of the Exploratorium staff include By Nature's
Design (Chronicle Books), a book of photos and text about recurring
natural patterns, The Color of Nature (Chronicle Books, Fall 1996),
and The Science Explorer (Holt, 1996), a book of science activities
for families.
I also teach writing. In 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, I taught science fiction
writing as part of Stanford University's Creative Writing Program. I have
taught science fiction at the University of California at Santa Cruz and
have participated as an instructor at the Clarion Speculative Fiction Workshop
at Michigan State University.
I am a student of Kenpo Karate, a style in which I currently hold a first
degree black belt. My favorite color is ultraviolet.
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