Victoria Strauss

• Gender: Female
• Industry: Arts
• Occupation: Novelist
• Location: Amherst : Massachusetts : United States

About Me

I'm the author of seven fantasy novels, including (most recently) The Burning Land and The Awakened City. I review science fiction and fantasy for several publications, including SF Site, and my articles on writing have appeared in Writer’s Digest and elsewhere. In 2006, I served as a judge for the World Fantasy Awards. I'm an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, where I serve as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Writing Scams and the webmistress of the Writer Beware website.

Try writing your name with your other hand. Where was that person raised?

Flatland.

Interests

• Writing
• reading
• gardening
• hiking
• movies
• collecting art glass
• extremely strong tea
• very sugary cinnamon toast
• checking my e-mail too many times a day
• procrastinating

Favorite Movies

• Napoleon
• Intolerance
• Ivan the Terrible
• Citizen Kane
• Juliet of the Spirits
• The Stuntman
• Days of Heaven
• Clockwork Orange
• Apocalypse Now
• Brazil
• Magnolia
• and a zillion others

Favorite Music

• Baroque music (especially Bach cantatas)
• Ralph Vaughn Williams
• Texas swing
• Depeche Mode
• Nine Inch Nails
• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
• Bjork
• VNV Nation
• Siouxie and the Banshees
• Randy Newman
• Tom Waits

Favorite Books

• Anything by Thomas Hardy
• anything by Saki
• House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevski
• The King Must Die by Mary Renault
• Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
• Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• most of Andre Norton
• Little Big by John Crowley
• Catseye by Margaret Atwood
• Shikasta by Doris Lessing
• Helliconia series by Brian Aldiss
• Valis by Philip K. Dick

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