Charlie Jane Anders

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Charlie Jane Anders
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Charlie Jane Anders
Occupation Writer, editor, presenter, performance artist, publisher
Genre Science fiction, short stories, fiction
Website
charliejane.net

Charlie Jane Anders is an American writer and commentator. She has written several novels and is the publisher of other magazine, the "magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts". In 2005, she received the Lambda Literary Award for work in the transgender category, and in 2009, the Emperor Norton Award.[1] Her 2011 novelette Six Months, Three Days won the 2012 Hugo[2] and was nominated for the Nebula[3] and Theodore Sturgeon Awards.[4]

Career

Anders has had science fiction published in Tor.com, Strange Horizons, and Flurb. Additional (non-science-fiction) literary work has been published in McSweeney's, and ZYZZYVA. Anders work has appeared in Salon,[5] The Wall Street Journal,[6] Publishers Weekly,[7] San Francisco Bay Guardian,[8] Mother Jones,[9] and the San Francisco Chronicle.[10] She has had stories and essays in anthologies such as Sex For America: Politically Inspired Erotica,[11] The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes,[12] and That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.[13]

In addition to her work as an author and publisher, Anders is also a longtime event organizer. She organized a "ballerina pie fight" in 2005 for other magazine;[14] co-organized the Cross-Gender Caravan, a national transgender and genderqueer author tour;[15] And a Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl in San Francisco.[16] She Emcees an award-winning monthly reading series Writers With Drinks, a San Francisco-based event begun in 2001 that features authors from a wide range of genres[17] and has been noted for its "free-associative author introductions."[18]

She has been a juror for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and for the Lambda Literary Awards. She formerly published the satirical website godhatesfigs.com[19] which was featured by the Sunday Times as website of the week.[citation needed]

She is also the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of the science fiction blog io9.[1]

In 2013, Deadline.com announced that a television adaptation of Anders' Six Months, Three Days was being prepared for NBC, with script written by Eric Garcia.[20]

In 2014, Tor Books announced that it had acquired two novels from Anders, with the first to be published in 2015.[21]

Personal life

Anders was born in New England and was a choir singer as a child.[citation needed] She self-identifies as genderqueer and a trans woman.[citation needed]

As a gameshow contestant, Anders won $1,000 on To Tell The Truth.[22]

In 2007, Anders brought attention to the policy of a San Francisco bisexual women's organization called "The Chasing Amy Social Club" that she felt was discriminatory, as it specifically barred preoperative transgender women from membership.[23]

Since 2000, Anders has been the partner of author Annalee Newitz.[24] The couple co-founded other magazine.[25][26]

Awards

Bibliography

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References

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Further reading

Interviews
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Reviews
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External links

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