Amy Sterling Casil

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Amy Sterling Casil
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
Alma materScripps College
Period1996–present
GenreScience Fiction
Website
amysterlingcasil.com

Amy Sterling Casil (born 1962) is a

Charles Schulz
.

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

James P. Blaylock. From 1998 to 2005, she taught English and creative writing at several Southern California colleges, including Chapman University and Saddleback College. From 2005, she was Director of Development for the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization Beyond Shelter
.

In April 2020, she moved to southwestern

Debbie Sterling of GoldieBlox is her niece.

Science fiction writing

Casil attended the

Clarion Science Fiction Writer's Workshop at Michigan State University in 1984. "Jonny Punkinhead," which appeared in the July 1996 New Writers issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
, was her first published genre story.

"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
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

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.

References

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