Lisa Tuttle was born and raised in Texas and moved to Britain in
the 1980s. Her first novel, Windhaven, co-written with George R.R.
Martin, was followed by a dozen fantasy, science fiction, and
horror adult and YA novels, and hundreds of award-winning short
stories collected in several volumes, including A Nest of
Nightmares and The Dead Hours of the Night. She is the author of
The Encyclopedia of Feminism and currently writes a monthly science
fiction review column for The Guardian. She lives with her husband
and their daughter in Scotland.
Amy Gentry is the author of the novels Good as Gone, a New York
Times Notable Book; Last Woman Standing; and mostly recently, Bad
Habits. She is also a nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in
numerous outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, Salon, and The
Paris Review. She lives in Austin, Texas.
“Lisa Tuttle is, quietly and unsensationally, the finest
practitioner of unsettling fiction writing today. She can make you
doubt reality, she can chill your flesh and walk you into the
darkness with gentle, perfectly constructed prose. Her authorial
voice is so sensible that it's easy to forget, over and over, in
story after story, that she's one of the dangerous ones, the kind
of writer that somebody really should have warned you about.” —Neil
Gaiman
"Is [My Death] a chilling prediction, or does it point to a
wished-for-ending, the consummation of a life?...originally
published in 2004, repackaged as a modern classic, this riddling
narrative laces fiction with fact, while touching upon (among other
things) the mysteries of attraction, identity, and the fate of
female creatives in the shadow of men." —Stephanie Cross,
Daily Mail
"Tuttle’s work to date has been categorized as horror, or
speculative fiction, and My Death deftly navigates between
conventional storytelling and the uncanny feeling that things are
perhaps other than they appear. The theme of the alternate feminist
narrative is actually integrated into the form of the novel
itself...in the end, My Death is not about death at all, but about
life after catastrophe: how art revives us, and how writers live on
in their readers." —Lauren Elkin, The New York Times
"My Death is very readable, in that page-turning, suspense-building
way....The fun of My Death is in its propulsive mystery plot...it
is a creepy, cozy pleasure, the kind of story that bothers a reader
in the nicest sort of way.” —Biblioklept
“Full of twists and turns, the book conjures the rich inner lives
of women working on the fringes of artistic communities that often
forget to memorialize or acknowledge them, even as Tuttle keeps
taut the thread of suspense that animates the story. Powerful and
empoweringly weird.” —Kirkus Reviews
"Lisa Tuttle's characters crawl into places that many genre authors
avoid....As sexually uncomfortable as her books can be, it's the
emotional discomfort that clings to you....Tuttle's books are messy
and chaotic. They feel desperate. They feel human. They feel like
real life." —Grady Hendrix, Tor.com
“It is [Tuttle’s] influence, ringing loud and clear, on the
award-winning work of authors like Carmen Maria Machado, Elizabeth
McCracken, and Karen Russell that will finally lead grateful
readers back to her.” —Booklist
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