Naomi Kritzer's Bibliography

My short stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Tales of the Unanticipated, and two Year's Best anthologies edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

Freedom's Gate - Bantam Books, June 2004

Freedom's Apprentice - Bantam Books, April 2005

The third book in the trilogy, Freedom's Sisters, will be out sometime in 2006.

Fires of the Faithful - Bantam Books, October 2002

Turning the Storm - Bantam Books, January 2003

These two books were originally written as a single novel. Bantam had me split and expand the story, as it was a little long to be one book (and yet left out some important stuff...I'd been panicking as I was writing it, as every time I'd revise to make it shorter it would end up longer instead).

"Faust's SASE" - Scavenger's Newsletter, September 1999.
Available online. This is much, much funnier if you're an SF or F writer, but non-writers have said they find it funny, too..

"Brother Mac, You Are Healed!" - Planet Relish, December 1999.
This is set in the 1980s. If you've never heard of a "Mac Plus" and don't know what it is, don't tell me. I feel old enough already.

"Gift of the Winter King" - Realms of Fantasy, April 2000

"The Price" - Tales of the Unanticipated, April 2000
Reviewed in Tangent, and you can read the review if you want, but they spoil the story and they didn't much like it.

"Spirit Stone" - Realms of Fantasy, October 2000

"The Devil's Mailbox" - Planet Relish, December 2000
Actually a reprint of "Faust's SASE." Available online.

"The Golem" - Realms of Fantasy, December 2000
If you'd like to read "The Golem," it's in the Year's Best Fantasy anthology edited by David Hartwell, which you can buy on Amazon.com.

"In the Witch's Garden" - Realms of Fantasy, October 2002

"Comrade Grandmother" - Strange Horizons, September 2002
Published in Strange Horizons, September 2002. Reprinted in Hebrew, and in Year's Best Fantasy 3, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

St. Ailbe's Hall - Strange Horizons, January 2004
Published in Strange Horizons in two parts, January 2004.

I am also an internationally published poet.

OK, that deserves an explanation, since it's not nearly as impressive as it sounds (but I don't want anyone thinking I got published by the National Library of Poetry, either). When I was in college, I spent a semester studying abroad in Nepal. One morning at the schoolhouse, one of the other women from the program announced that she was having lunch with the editor of a bilingual literary magazine called Himalaya. If we had any poetry we'd written about Nepal, we could submit it to the magazine by handing it to him during lunch.

As it happened, I'd written quite a bit of poetry while in Nepal. So, I carefully copied out two of my favorite poems (yes, by hand - you can do that when you're in a Third World country). During lunch, I approached him and handed the poems.

He checked them for length and said, "Wonderful! I'll publish them both!"

I'm not knocking any publishing credit (except for the National Library of Poetry) but you know, it would have been a much more emotionally validating experience if he'd read the two poems before accepting them.

He did call back later to say that he'd read them and really liked them, and would thus be publishing them both in the upcoming issue, which would come out before I left the country. Sure enough, I got two contributor's copies the week before I was due to leave.

The following year, I got another poem published in the study-abroad program's alumni newsletter. Voila: internationally published poet.

Write to Me
...but don't send me spam. Social e-mail (even from strangers) is always welcome at naomi.kritzer<at>alumni.carleton.edu.