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Susan Palwick is an American writer and associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She began her professional career by publishing "The Woman Who Saved the World" for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1985.
Raised in northern New Jersey, Palwick attended Princeton University and holds a doctoral degree from Yale. In the 1980s, she was an editor of The Little Magazine and then helped found The New York Review of Science Fiction. Although she is not a prolific author, Palwick's work has received multiple awards, including the Rhysling Award for her poem "The Neighbor's Wife." She won the Crawford Award for best first novel with Flying in Place in 1993, and The Alex Award in 2006 for her second novel, The Necessary Beggar. Her third novel, Shelter, was published by Tor in 2007. Another book, The Fate of Mice, has also been published by Tachyon Publications.
Susan Palwick is a practicing Episcopalian and lay preacher. She also writes a column for the Church Health Center's website on faith and health, HopeandHealing.org.
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