Occupation Editor Nationality United States | Name Patrick Hayden Role Editor | |
Born Patrick James Hayden
January 2, 1959 (age 65)
Lansing, Michigan ( 1959-01-02 ) Genre Non-fiction (writer);
science fiction, fantasy (editor) Spouse Teresa Nielsen Hayden (m. 1979) Awards Hugo Award for Best Editor, Long Form, Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology Nominations Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer Similar People Teresa Nielsen Hayden, David G Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, Susan Palwick | ||
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Patrick James Nielsen Hayden (born Patrick James Hayden January 2, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan), is an American science fiction editor, fan, fanzine publisher, essayist, reviewer, anthologist, teacher and blogger. He is a World Fantasy Award and Hugo Award winner (with nine nominations for the latter award), and is an editor and the Manager of Science Fiction at Tor Books. He changed his last name to "Nielsen Hayden" on his marriage to Teresa Nielsen (now Teresa Nielsen Hayden) in 1979.
Contents
- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
- Career
- Hugo awards and nominations
- Fanzine editor small press publisher and magazine editor
- Anthologies
- References
Career
He was first active in science fiction fandom while living in Toronto in the early 1970s. He continued in Seattle, before moving to the New York area in the 1980s to work professionally in publishing. After moving to New York, he worked at Literary Guild as an editorial assistant, then at Chelsea House as an associate editor. He joined Tor Books in the mid-1980s as an assistant and has worked there ever since. He is also a writer, teacher, and musician. He plays guitar and sings on occasion for the New York rock band Whisperado. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
He has published a number of essays and reviews. He has contributed to a number of books and magazines, including The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2nd edition, 1993) The Map: Rediscovering Rock and Roll.
He is one of the regular instructors at Viable Paradise, a science fiction writing workshop held on Martha's Vineyard, and has also taught at both U.S. Clarion Workshops.
He used to be active on the Usenet groups rec.arts.sf.* in the 1990s. Since July 2000 he wrote a blog Electrolite until it was incorporated into his wife's blog Making Light in May 2005, where he now writes along with her, with Viable Paradise co-teacher, SF writer James D. Macdonald, and SF fans Avram Grumer and Abi Sutherland.
Hugo awards and nominations
Fanzine editor, small press publisher and magazine editor
From 1982 to 1987, he edited and published the science fiction fanzine Izzard with his wife Teresa Nielsen Hayden. He has worked on a number of other fanzines over the years, including Twibbet, Thangorodrim, Tweek, Ecce Fanno, Telos, Zed, and Flash Point.
Through their small press, Ansatz Press, Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden published Samuel R. Delany's Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions
From 1985 to 1989, he served on the editorial board of The Little Magazine, a poetry magazine. In 1988, he was one of the founding editors of The New York Review of Science Fiction, for which he did the basic design still in use today. He left the magazine after several issues.
Anthologies
Starlight original science fiction & fantasy anthology series:
Short Fiction