Pratt, Tim 1976–

PERSONAL: Born 1976; married Heather Shaw.

ADDRESSES: Home—Oakland, CA. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Night Shade Books, 1470 N.W. Saltz-man Rd., Portland, OR 97229.

CAREER: Writer and poet. Flytrap (literary magazine), Oakland, CA, coeditor; Locus magazine, Oakland, CA, editor and book reviewer.

AWARDS, HONORS: Strange Horizons 2002 Reader's Choice Awards for Fiction, and Nebula Award nominee, 2003, both for Little Gods; Rhysling Award, long poem category, 2005, for "Soul Searching."

WRITINGS:

(With wife, Heather Shaw) Living Together in Mythic Times (chapbook), Tropism Press (Oakland, CA), 2001.

(With Heather Shaw) Floodwater (chapbook), Tropism Press (Oakland, CA), 2002.

(With Erin Donahoe) Love: Sensual, Subversive, and Erotic Poetry and Art, Vixen Press (San Francisco, CA), 2003.

Little Gods (short stories and poetry), Prime Books (Holicong, PA), 2003.

(With Heather Shaw) Wintering Away (chapbook), Tropism Press (Oakland, CA), 2003.

Pook's Original Miscellany (chapbook), Tropism Press (Oakland, CA), 2004.

The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl (novel), Bantam Spectra (New York, NY), 2005.

If There Were Wolves (poetry), Prime/Aegis, 2006.

Hart & Boot & Other Stories, Night Shade Books (Portland, OR), 2006.

Contributor of short stories to anthologies, including TEL: Stories, 2005; The Best American Short Stories: 2005; The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror; and Twenty Epics, 2006. Contributor of short stories to periodicals, including Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Journal of Mythic Arts, Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, Ultraverse, Realms of Fantasy, Polyphony, Third Alternative, Fortean Bureau, Intracities, Ideomancer, Abyss & Apex, Horrorfind, Far Sector, Slow Trains, Elysian Fiction, Twilight Showcase, and Fantasy magazine.

Contributor of poetry to periodicals, including Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Strange Horizons, Snow Monkey, Chiaroscuro, Electric Wine, Recursive Angel, Modern Art Cave, and Jabberwocky.

SIDELIGHTS: The author of fantasy, science fiction, and poetry, Tim Pratt has also collaborated with his wife, writer Heather Shaw, on several books, including Floodwater, which features solo efforts by both writers and a collaborative story. Commenting on Pratt's solo short story, "The Heart, a Chambered Nautilus," Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction contributor Charles De Lint noted that "the pleasure is in Pratt's language and in the payoff at the story's end." In his first solo collection, titled Little Gods, Pratt presents fifteen stories and four poems, including the Nebula-nominated title story. In a review in Publishers Weekly, a contributor commented that the author "is a writer to watch." Pratt's first novel, The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, tells the story of Marzipan "Marzi" McCarty, who drops out of art school and becomes a writer of comics featuring the character of "Rangergirl" while working nights at a coffeehouse. When McCarty suspects that events in the real world are mirroring her comic stories, she discovers that she is the only one that can fight off impending disaster in the form of western villains coming from another dimension. Writing in Booklist, Regina Schroeder commented that "Marzi travels beyond the possible into a grand and magical western, indeed."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, November 15, 2005, Regina Schroeder, review of The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, p. 33.

Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 2005, review of The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, p. 1114.

Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June, 2003, Charles De Lint, review of Floodwater, p. 85.

Publishers Weekly, November 3, 2003, review of Little Gods, p. 59; October, 10, 2005, review of The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, p. 41.

ONLINE

SFF Net, http://www.sff.net/ (January 19, 2005), "Tim Pratt's Bio."