Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Born	January 6, 1950(1950-01-06) Seattle, Washington
Occupation	Fantasy writer, Editor, Critic
Nationality	United States
Genres	Fantasy
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Jessica Amanda Salmonson, born January 6, 1950,^[1][2] is an author, editor and writer of fantasy and horror fiction.

Works

Salmonson is the author of the Tomoe Gozen trilogy, a fantasy version of the tale of the historical female samurai; Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman, an Asian fantasy; and a modern horror novel, Anthony Shriek. She is 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. 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. ^[3]

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, and Mary Heaton Vorse.

Salmonson's website, Violet Books, is a "domain for fans & collectors of literary ghost stories, Victorian science fiction", and like topics. She also maintains an extensive film blog, the Weird Wild Realm, in which she reviews films of all kinds, from art films to exploitation films, with coverage in particular of horror films, Japanese cinema, and Chinese cinema. Her third site, In the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl, is a temperate-gardening site.

Awards

• 1980: World Fantasy Award for best collection, Amazons! (1979).
• 1989: Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy, What Did Miss Darrington See?: An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Fiction.

Select bibliography

Tomoe Gozen trilogy

• Tomoe Gozen (1981) (revised as The Disfavored Hero (1999))
• The Golden Naginata (1982)
• Thousand Shrine Warrior (1984)

Other novels

• The Swordswoman (1982)
• Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman (1985)
• Anthony Shriek, His Doleful Adventures; or, Lovers of Another Realm (1992)

Collections

• Hag's Tapestry (1986)
• A Silver Thread of Madness (1989)
• John Collier and Fredric Brown Went Quarreling Through My Head (1989)
• Harmless Ghosts (1990)
• Mystic Women (1991)
• The Mysterious Doom & Other Ghostly Tales of the Pacific Northwest (1992)
• Wisewomen & Boggy-Boos: A Dictionary of Lesbian Fairy Lore (1992) (with Jules Remedios Faye)
• The Eleventh Jaguarundi and Other Mysterious Persons (1995)
• Phantom Waters: Northwest Legends of Rivers, Lakes & Shores (1995)
• Mister Monkey and Other Sumerian Fables (1995)
• Twenty-one Novels (2002)
• The Dark Tales (1991)
• The Deep Museum: Ghost Stories of a Melancholic (2003)

Poetry collections

• The Horn of Tara (1995)
• The Ghost Garden

Non-fiction

• The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Present Era (1991)

Anthologies edited

• Amazons! (1979)
• Amazons II (1982)
• Heroic Visions (1983)
• Tales by Moonlight (1983)
• Heroic Visions II (1986)
• Tales by Moonlight II (1989)
• What Did Miss Darrington See? (1989)

Collections edited

• Faded Garden: the Collected Ghost Stories of Hildegarde Hawthorne (1985)
• The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien (1988)
• From Out of the Past: The Indiana Ghost Stories of Anna Nicholas (1992)
• Master of Fallen Years: Complete Supernatural Stories of Vincent O'Sullivan (1995)
• The Rose of Death and Other Mysterious Delusions by Julian Hawthorne (1997)
• The Shell of Sense: Collected Ghost Stories of Olivia Howard Dunbar (1997)
• Twilight and Other Supernatural Romances by Marjorie Bowen (1998)
• Lady Ferry and Other Uncanny People by Sarah Orne Jewett (1998)
• The Phantom Coach and Other Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Augustus Jessopp (1998)
• The Wind at Midnight by Georgia Wood Pangborn (1999)
• The Moonstone Mass and Others by Harriet Prescott Spofford (2000)
• The Golden Gong and Other Night-Pieces by Thomas Burke (2001)
• Sinister Romance: Collected Ghost Stories by Mary Heaton Vorse (2002)
• The Empire of Death and Other Strange Stories by Alice Brown (2003)

References

1. ^ John Clute and John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, pp. 832-833, Orbit, London / St Martin’s Press, New York (1997).
2. ^ Brian Stableford, The A to Z of Fantasy Literature, pp. 356-367, The A to Z Guide Series, Scarecrow Press (2009), ISBN-13: 978-0810868298
3. ^ http://www.violetbooks.com/salmonson-bib.html

External links

• Violet Books
• The Weird Wild Realm of Paghat the Ratgirl's Movie Reviews Website
• In the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl
• Jessica Amanda Salmonson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Name	Salmonson, Jessica Amanda
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Date of birth	1950
Place of birth	Seattle
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