Nationality United States Edited works Amazons! Role Author | Name Jessica Salmonson Genre Fantasy | |
Born January 6, 1950
Seattle, Washington ( 1950-01-06 ) Occupation Fantasy writer, Editor, Critic Awards Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy Books Tomoe Gozen, The encyclopedia of Amazo, Thousand Shrine Warrior, The Golden Naginata, Tales by Moonlight | ||
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Jessica Amanda Salmonson (born January 6, 1950) is an American author and editor of fantasy and horror fiction and poetry.
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Author
Salmonson is the author of the Tomoe Gozen trilogy, a fantasy version of the tale of the historical female samurai Tomoe Gozen. Her other novels are The Swordswoman, Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman, an Asian fantasy, and a modern horror novel, Anthony Shriek.
Her short story collections include A Silver Thread of Madness; Mystic Women; John Collier and Fredric Brown Went Quarreling Through My Head; The Deep Museum: Ghost Stories of a Melancholic; and The Dark Tales. Poetry collections include Horn of Tara and The Ghost Garden.
Editor
Salmonson was the editor of the anthologies Amazons! and Amazons II; Heroic Visions and Heroic Visions II; Tales by Moonlight and Tales by Moonlight II; and What Did Miss Darrington See: An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Stories.
She has also edited a series of single-author collections of ghost stories and weird tales, many of them of historical significance to genre literature, including volumes by Marjorie Bowen, Alice Brown, Thomas Burke, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, Augustus Jessopp, Sarah Orne Jewett, Anna Nicholas, Fitz-James O'Brien, Vincent O'Sullivan, Georgia Wood Pangborn, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Mary Heaton Vorse, Jerome K. Jerome.
From 1973 to 1975, she was one of the editors of The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror, a small-press magazine. She openly documented her coming out as a transgender woman in this journal. She went on to edit Fantasy Macabre from 1985 until the final issue, #17, in 1996. The magazine was subtitled "Beauty plus strangeness equals terror."
Essays and Web presence
Salmonson has written a number of reviews and essays, mostly covering science fiction and feminism. In 2009, she posted a set of 240 film reviews, The Weird Wild Realm of Paghat the Ratgirl, in which she reviewed films of all kinds, with coverage in particular of horror films, Japanese cinema, and Chinese cinema.