Amy Sterling Casil
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Amy Sterling Casil | |
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Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Novelist |
Alma mater | Scripps College |
Period | 1996–present |
Genre | Science Fiction |
Website | |
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Amy Sterling Casil (born 1962) is a
Background, education and employment
A four-year National Merit Scholar, she graduated from Scripps College in 1983 with bachelor's degrees in British and American Literature and Studio Art. She was the first female editor and publisher of the Claremont Colleges' newsmagazine.[citation needed] She twice received the Crombie Allen Award for fiction writing at the Claremont Colleges. During her time at Scripps, she was raped and tortured. She has written at length about why she did not pursue prosecution of her rapist (a professor at Pomona College, whom she has named repeatedly).[2]
Casil was the director of Family Service Association in
In April 2020, she moved to southwestern
Debbie Sterling of GoldieBlox is her niece.
Science fiction writing
Casil attended the
"To Kiss the Star" was a 2002 nominee for science fiction's
Bibliography
Novels
- Imago. 2001.
Short fiction
- Collections
- Without Absolution. 2001.
- To Kiss the Star and Other Stories
- Stories
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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Mad for the mints | 2000 | Casil, Amy Sterling (Jul 2000). "Mad for the mints". F&SF. 99 (1): 4–26. | ||
To kiss the star | 2001 | Casil, Amy Sterling (Feb 2001). "To kiss the star". F&SF. 100 (2): 138–160. | ||
Shakespeare in Hell | 2002 |
- "Jonny Punkinhead" (1996)
- "Jenny, With the Stars in Her Hair" (Writers of the Future Volume XIV) (1998)
- "My Son, My Self" (Writers of the Future Volume XV) (1999)
- "The Color of Time" (Zoetrope All-Story) (1999)
- "Chromosome Circus" (Fantasy & Science Fiction–January) (2000)
- "Mad for the Mints" (Fantasy & Science Fiction–[when?]July)
- "To Kiss the Star" (Fantasy & Science Fiction–February[when?])
- Perfect Stranger (Fantasy & Science Fiction) (2006)
As editor
- switch.blade "School's Out" Fictionwise original anthology (2002)
Nonfiction
- Buzz Aldrin: Pilot of the First Moon Landing (2004)
- Coping With Terrorism (2005)
- John Dewey: Founder of American Liberalism (2006)
- "Behind Every Good Man—and Woman". Guest Editorial. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (9): 4–7. September 2015.
- "Can Ghosts Teach Us Anything?". The Alternate View. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (11): 56–58. November 2015.
Art
Covers of Alan Rodgers' Bone Music and Pandora; and Stephen Mark Rainey's Balak.