Suzette Haden Elgin

SUZETTE HADEN ELGIN was born in Missouri in 1936. Her undergraduate work was at the University of Chicago and Chico State University; she completed her linguistics Ph.D. at the University of California San Diego in 1973, and then taught in the Linguistics Department at San Diego State University. In 1980 she retired to the Arkansas Ozarks, where she runs a business from her home. She published her first novel, The Communipaths, in 1970. She is a linguist, writer, artist, songwriter, poet, businessperson, housewife, and grandmother of twelve. Her best known books are the Native Tongue and Ozark science fiction trilogies and her nonfiction Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense series. Her most recent books are Peacetalk 101, The Science Fiction Poetry Handbook, and her debut book of sci-fi poetry, Twenty-One Novel Poems. Her most recent sci-fi short stories are "Honor Is Golden" (Analog, May 2004), "We Have Always Spoken Panglish" (SciFi.com, October 2004, and at her SFWA website), and "Death and Taxes," (Challenging Destiny, January 2008). Her awards include the Academy of American Poets Award (University of Chicago, 1955); a Eugene Saxton Memorial Trust poetry fellowship, 1957-58; and the Short Poem Rhysling Award (tie), 1988.

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