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Alix E. Harrow (born November 9, 1989) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her short fiction work "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" has been nominated for the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award, and in 2019 won a Hugo Award. Her debut novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019), was widely acclaimed by mainstream critics, lauded by general audiences during voting at Goodreads Choice Awards and Locus Awards, and nominated for multiple first novel literary awards and speculative fiction awards. She has also published under the name Alix Heintzman.




Life and career


Alix E. Harrow was born on November 9, 1989, in the United States and grew up in Kentucky. She enrolled at Berea College at age sixteen, where she completed a bachelor's degree in history in three years. She then went on to earn a master's degree in history from the University of Vermont. Before working as a full-time writer, Harrow was an academic historian who taught as an adjunct professor of African and African American history at Eastern Kentucky University.
Her first novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019), was received with critical acclaim and nominated for multiple awards, including the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award for best novel. A second novel, The Once and Future Witches (2020), won a British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award). A more recent novella, A Spindle Splintered (2021), was nominated for a Hugo Award for best novella.
Harrow has also written short fiction for Shimmer Magazine, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and Apex Magazine. This has produced a Hugo Award–winning 2018 short story called "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" (published by Apex).
Harrow lives in Virginia.




Awards






Bibliography






= Novels

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—— (2019). The Ten Thousand Doors of January. Redhook. ISBN 9780316421997.
—— (2020). The Once and Future Witches. Redhook. ISBN 9780316422048.
—— (2023). Starling House. Tor Books. ISBN 9781250765369.




= Fractured Fables series

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Novellas

—— (2021). A Spindle Splintered. Tordotcom. ISBN 9781250765352.
—— (2022). A Mirror Mended. Tordotcom. ISBN 9781250766649.




= Short fiction

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"A Whisper in the Weld" (2014)
"The Animal Women" (2015)
"Dustbaby" (2015)
"The Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage" (2016)
"Patience and Not-Forsaken" (2016)
"A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" (2018)
"Do Not Look Back, My Lion" (2019)
"The Sycamore and the Sybil" (2020)
"Mr. Death" (2021)
"The Long Way Up" (2022)




References






External links


Official website
Alix E. Harrow on Instagram
Alix E. Harrow at the Science Fiction Awards Database
Alix E. Harrow at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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