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| User: | ellen_kushner (4995478)  PUGGY'S HILL
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| Name: | ellen_kushner | ||||
| Website: | Ellen Kushner webpage | ||||
| Location: | NYC, New York, United States | ||||
| Birthdate: | 10-06 | ||||
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| Bio: | "'King Puggy...lives in a ruined castle on a hill with his seven madcap daughters. The old king's wife died of a fit of shrieks when all the Princesses were very young. Now Puggy and his seven maids live all alone, wreaking every kind of hob and havoc on their hill: rolling boulders down on passersby, turning rivers from their normal course, stealing gems and silks from caravans so they can dress in gawdy masquerade and play their wild and eerie games by jack-o'-lantern light.' The Royal Recorder raised his hands and shook his head. 'Every night is Hallowe'en on Puggy's Hill.'" - James Thurber, The White Deer HERE IS THE OFFICIAL BIO for them as needs it: A graduate of Barnard College's Program in the Arts, Kushner also studied anthropology, ethnomusicology, and folklore at Bryn Mawr College. She first worked in New York City as a fiction editor, copywriter, and artists' representative before moving to Boston to join WGBH Radio as the host of some memorably eclectic local programs. She was invited to create and host Sound & Spirit, which first went on national air in April 1996, and is now heard on over 100 stations nationwide. Kushner's family holiday story, The Golden Dreydl: A Klezmer 'Nutcracker' for Chanukah, which she performs live every year with Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, is now commercially available on CD from Rykodisc. For Rykodisc she and her staff also created the Sound & Spirit collection Welcoming Children into the World. Her adult performance piece, Esther: the Feast of Masks (2004 Gracie Allen Award), tours the U.S. Her first novel, Swordspoint, a Melodrama of Manners, was reissued by Bantam Books in 2003 in connection with the publication of its sequel, The Fall of the Kings, co-written with Delia Sherman. Kushner's second novel, Thomas the Rhymer, won the Mythopoeic and the World Fantasy Awards, and was rereleased by Bantam in 2004. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in many anthologies, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and her work has been translated into seven languages. Her new novel, THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD (Bantam, August 2006, limited edition hardcover, Small Beer Press), nearly made the SF/F Trifecta by being both a Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominee. It did win the Locus Award. Latest book: THE GOLDEN DREYDL (Charlesbridge, 2007). She lives in NYC with Delia Sherman and too many books. She dreams of being invited to play HAMLET someday. | ||||
| Interests: | 25: broad universe, chanukah, delia sherman, e.r. eddison, fantasy, interstitial arts, klezmer nutcracker, mad dukes, mythic arts, mythic fantasy, national public radio, public radio, queen esther, readercon, richard thompson, riverside, shakespeare, sound & spirit, sound and spirit, swordspoint, the golden dreydl, the thirteen clocks, thomas the rhymer, wiscon, young trollopes | ||||
| Schools: | Fernway Elementary School - Shaker Heights, OH Woodbury Junior High School - Shaker Heights, OH | ||||
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