Awards & Winners

Ellen Klages

Date of Birth 09-July-1954
Place of Birth Columbus
(Ohio, United States of America, Area code 614)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer
Ellen Klages is a science, science fiction and historical fiction writer who lives in San Francisco. Her novelette "Basement Magic" won the 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. She had previously been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell awards. Her first novel, The Green Glass Sea, was published by Viking Children's Books in 2006. It won the 2007 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Portable Childhoods, a collection of her short fiction published by Tachyon Publications, was named a 2008 World Fantasy Award Finalist. White Sands, Red Menace, the sequel to The Green Glass Sea, was published in Fall 2008. In 2010 her short story "Singing on a Star" was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. Klages is also known for doing stand-up comedy and other performances as an auctioneer annually at WisCon. The WisCon Tiptree Auction is a fundraiser for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award; Klages also serves on the Board for the award. "At past Tiptree auctions,auctioneer/comedian Ellen Klages has auctioned off her own hair, Mary Doria Russell's brassiere, a hand-knitted uterus, a kangaroo-scrotum purse, a cherry pie, and a Xena lawn butt." Klages was a Guest of Honor at Wiscon 33.

Awards by Ellen Klages

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ellen Klages.

2014


Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novella Wakulla Springs

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novella Wakulla Springs

2008


California Book Award Silver Medal - Young Adult
Honored for : White Sands, Red Menace

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection Portable Childhoods
Locus Award for Best Short Story Mrs. Zeno's Paradox

2007


New Mexico Book Award for Best Young Adult Book
Honored for : The Green Glass Sea

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best First Novel The Green Glass Sea

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story The Green Glass Sea

2004


Nebula Award for Best Novelette
Honored for : Basement Magic

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novelette Basement Magic

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Short Story Flying Over Water

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novelette Time Gypsy

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novelette Time Gypsy