Susan Palwick

2 universes Last reviewed 2026-11-03

Susan Palwick is an American writer born in 1960 in New York City and raised in northern New Jersey. She studied at Princeton University, where she worked with novelist Stephen Koch, and later earned a doctorate at Yale. She became an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, and is now professor emerita. Her first story, 'The Woman Who Saved the World', appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction in 1985, and in the 1980s she edited The Little Magazine and helped found The New York Review of Science Fiction. She won the Rhysling Award in 1986, the Crawford Award for her first novel Flying in Place in 1993 and the Alex Award in 2006 for The Necessary Beggar. Her other books include the novels Shelter (2007) and Mending the Moon (2013) and the collection The Fate of Mice. She is an Episcopalian lay preacher and worked as a hospital chaplain in Reno.

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Books

• Flying in Place (1992) · Flying in Place Core Canon
• The Necessary Beggar (2005) · The Necessary Beggar Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 2 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 3 (2 won, 1 nomination)

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