Awards & Winners

Elizabeth Hand

Date of Birth 29-March-1957
Place of Birth Yonkers
(Westchester County, United States of America, New York)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Carson Windjammer
Profession Novelist, Writer, Author
Elizabeth Hand is an American writer. Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She studied drama and anthropology at The Catholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand has lived in coastal Maine, the setting for many of her stories. She also lives part-time in Camden Town, London which has been the setting for Mortal Love and the short story "Cleopatra Brimstone". Hand's first story, "Prince of Flowers", was published in 1988 in Twilight Zone magazine, and her first novel, Winterlong, was published in 1990. With Paul Witcover, she created and wrote DC Comics' 1990s cult series Anima. Hand's other works are Aestival Tide; Icarus Descending; Waking the Moon, which won the Tiptree Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award; the post-apocalyptic novel Glimmering; contemporary fantasy Black Light, a New York Times Notable Book; the historical fantasy Mortal Love, a Washington Post Notable Book; and the psychological thriller Generation Loss. Her story collections are Last Summer at Mars Hill; Bibliomancy, winner of the World Fantasy Award; and Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories, which includes the Nebula Award-winning "Echo". Mortal Love was also shortlisted for the 2005 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.

Awards by Elizabeth Hand

Check all the awards nominated and won by Elizabeth Hand.

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novella The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon

2008


World Fantasy Award for Best Novella
Honored for : Illyria

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella Illyria

2007


Shirley Jackson Award for Novel
Honored for : Generation Loss

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories
Locus Award for Best Short Story The Saffron Gatherers

2006


Nebula Award for Best Short Story
Honored for : Echo

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Short Story Echo
Locus Award for Best Short Story Calypso in Berlin

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Mortal Love: A Novel
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Mortal Love: A Novel
Locus Award for Best Short Story Wonderwall

2004


World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
Honored for : Bibliomancy

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Tiptree, Jr. Award Mortal Love: A Novel
Locus Award for Best Collection Bibliomancy

2003


Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella The Least Trumps

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella Cleopatra Brimstone

2001


Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Black Light

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection Last Summer at Mars Hill

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Arthur C. Clarke Award Glimmering
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Glimmering

1996


Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Honored for : Waking the Moon

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Waking the Moon
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Waking the Moon

1995


World Fantasy Award for Best Novella
Honored for : Last Summer at Mars Hill
Nebula Award for Best Novella
Honored for : Last Summer at Mars Hill
James Tiptree, Jr. Award
Honored for : Waking the Moon

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Waking the Moon
James Tiptree, Jr. Award Waking the Moon
Nebula Award for Best Novella Last Summer at Mars Hill
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella Last Summer at Mars Hill

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Fantasy Award for Best Novella The Erl-King

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Philip K. Dick Award Icarus Descending
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Æstival Tide

1992


Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Philip K. Dick Award Æstival Tide

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best First Novel Winterlong

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Philip K. Dick Award Winterlong