Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary Robinette Kowal is the 2008 recipient of the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Cosmos and Asimov’s. Mary, a professional puppeteer and voice actor, lives in Portland, OR with her husband Rob and eight manual typewriters.
Mary Robinette Kowal has performed for LazyTown (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures and founded Other Hand Productions. Her design work has garnered two UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve.
Photo: Mary Robinette Kowal at 2008 Nebula Awards (source: Wikimedia Commons)
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Speculative Fiction Books
The Martian Contingency (Lady Astronaut #4 / 4)
2025 | science fiction, alternate history | Release date March 18, 2025
The Spare Man
2022 | science fiction, mystery
The Original
2020 | science fiction, thriller
Ghost Talkers
2016 | fantasy
Forest of Memory
2016 | science fiction
Word Puppets
2015 | science fiction, fantasy, short stories
Scenting the Dark and Other Stories
2009 | science fiction, fantasy, short stories
Comics and Anthology
Shadows Beneath
2014 | fantasy, anthology