Otherwise Award (formerly the James Tiptree, Jr. Award)
1 appearances
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Edition 16 (2006) Winner
Shelley Jackson
シェリー・ジャクソン
Sherī Jakuson
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1963 （Philippines）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Berkeley, California → San Francisco, California → New York City → Saas-Fee, Switzerland
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Artist, University Instructor
- Active Years
- 1993-2024
- Affiliations
- The New School, European Graduate School
- Influenced By
- Mary Shelley, Robert Coover, George Landow
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley High School | — | — | — | — | United States |
| Stanford University | Art | — | BA | — | United States |
| Brown University | — | Creative Writing | MFA | — | United States |
Berkeley High School
Country:
United States
Stanford University
Art
Degree:
BA
Country:
United States
BA in art
Brown University
Creative Writing
Degree:
MFA
Country:
United States
MFA in creative writing
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | James Tiptree, Jr. Award | Half Life | SF/Fantasy | James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council | Winner |
James Tiptree, Jr. Award
2006
Work:
Half Life
Category:
SF/Fantasy
Organization:
James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Patchwork Girl
1995 Hypertext fictionNonchronological reworking of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein using tissue, scars, body, and skeleton as metaphors for juxtaposition of lexia and link.
bodyscarshypertextFrankenstein
Half Life
2006 NovelDisenchanted conjoined twin Nora Olney plots to murder her sister in an alternate history where atomic bombs resulted in genetic preponderance of conjoined twins.
conjoined twinsalternate historyidentity
The Melancholy of Anatomy
2002 Short story collectionShort story collection exploring anatomical themes.
anatomybody
Skin
2003 Mortal work of artNovella published exclusively as tattoos, one word per volunteer on 2095 people's skin. Only participants can read the entire narrative.
skinmortalitybody
Bibliography
- Patchwork Girl
- My Body
- The Doll Games
- The Old Woman and the Wave
- Sophia, the Alchemist's Dog
- The Melancholy of Anatomy
- Half Life
- Mimi's Dada Catifesto
- Riddance
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- experimentalcross-genrehypertext fictionart of digression
- Recurring Motifs
- bodyscarsskinconjoined twinsmortality
Legacy
American writer and artist known for cross-genre experimental works, including groundbreaking hypertext Patchwork Girl (1995) and novel Half Life (2006).
Quotes
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Shelley Jackson was extracted from the bum leg of a water buffalo in 1963 in the Philippines and grew up complaining in Berkeley, California.
Source: Ineradicable Stain website -
I want my fiction to be more like a world full of things that you can wander around in, rather than a record or memory of those wanderings.
Source: Interview (1998)
Trivia
- Her family ran a small women's bookstore in Berkeley.
- Married writer Jonathan Lethem from 1987 to 1998.
- Launched Skin Project in 2003, tattooing one word of a novella on each of 2095 volunteers.
- Studied under Robert Coover and George Landow at Brown University.