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Michaela's solo exhibit, "Landscape as Architecture," at the Maturango
Museum in Ridgecrest, California, November 11 - Dec. 14, 2005, is now "hung"
online here on her website. Just click on the new virtual gallery door and
it will take you to the exhibit. You can see larger versions, if you wish,
and the specs. on each piece, by clicking on the thumbnails.
News
- Upcoming: Short story "It's a Wonderful Life," Magazine of Fantasy and Science
Fiction, January, 2008.
- "Horse Year Women," originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy
& Science Fiction, January, 2006, was honor-listed for the Tiptree
Awards and will be included in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 4: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender, to be
published in 2008.
- "The Klepsydra," a chapter in a bestiary Michaela is working on, was
a finalist for the Calvino Prize, awarded for experimental fiction.
"Del Norte"
The long-scheduled paperback anthology Conquerer Fantastic is finally
out! The publisher is DAW, the editor Pamela Sargent, and my story is "Del
Norte" (it's the last story in the book.) The framework of the story is the
conquest of Mexico. The basis for it was a local tale told to me in, of all
places, a little Catalan mountain village a bit south of Andorra, by my
Catalan cousin Florentina. But mine is not the only story — this is a
strong anthology, with stories contributed by some of the "heavy hitters" in
the field.
DAW Books
April 2004
ISBN: 0756401917
Interview
An interview with Michaela Roessner at Kim Antieau's website -- among other
things, a discussion about food, writing, and the life of an artist in
general.
The articles on this page are posted with the most recent first, so Part 1 of the interview is below Part 2.
Available Now:
Paperback, Tor Books, $6.99
ISBN: 0-812-55015-3

The Stars Compel
Tor Books, October 1999
Hardcover: ISBN 0312857551
Reviews
"I highly recommend The Stars Compel to anyone who enjoys
fantasy, history, intrigue and courtly passion because this
book has them all."
— S. Joan Popek
Millennium SF & F
"Roessner's sequel to her historical fantasy The Stars Dispose brilliantly recreates Renaissance Italy and brightly imagines the love of young Catherine de Medici.... Most satisfying of all of this hearty novel's mingled flavors is the sprezzatura, or easy grace of the loving master, with which Roessner concocts her luscious Italian settings, replete with recipes that even on the page breathe the seductive scents of Tuscany: Bellissima."
—Publishers Weekly, September 20, 1999
"The Stars Compel is a fine and brilliant work of historical fiction that brings life to Renaissance Rome."
—The Midwest Book Review, October 1999
Paperback: Tor Books, March 1998
ISBN: 0812550145
Hardcover: Tor Books, April 1997
ISBN: 0312857543
Reviews of The Stars Dispose
"...Rich sights and smells pull you into a world of her creation.... She concocts a magic of her own with her writing."
— Alex McGilvery
Millennium Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine
"A sumptuous Renaissance fantasy..."
—The SF Site
Interviews
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine: Interview, by Rachel Holmen. Spring 2000, Issue #47: pp 40 - 46.
The transcript of Michaela Roessner's October 7 online chat is now available, courtesy of Event Horizon. (Off-site link: Press "back" button to return)
Essays
An Appreciation of Lisa Goldstein
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for books by
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Link to Michaela Roessner's home page
Offsite links
For those of my readers who enjoy the marriage of imaginative writing and
food, Kim Antieau's Coyote Cowgirl is now in stores and available online.
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