Emma Törzs

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Emma Törzs grew up in Massachusetts in a creative household; her mother was a poet who taught creative writing and mythology at a community college, and Törzs has four sisters. She earned a BA in Cultural Studies from Macalester College and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Montana, and now teaches creative writing and fantasy fiction writing at her alma mater, Macalester College, alongside working as a translator. Her debut novel, Ink Blood Sister Scribe (2023), follows two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's secretive magical library, and achieved significant recognition, becoming a Sunday Times bestseller, a Good Morning America Book Club selection, and a New York Times Notable Book of 2023. Beyond the novel, Törzs has published extensive short fiction in venues including Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, and Strange Horizons, building a reputation for atmospheric, tightly crafted speculative short stories well before her novel debut. Her honors include the O. Henry Prize in 2015, the World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction in 2019 for "Like a River Loves the Sky," a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose in 2020, and the Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction in 2024. Ink Blood Sister Scribe is being developed as a television series titled Ink by Amazon MGM Studios' Gato Grande division.

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• Ink Blood Sister Scribe (2023) · Ink Blood Sister Scribe Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)

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