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Alexandra Pierce Alexandra Pierce i(8318398 works by) (a.k.a. Alex Pierce)
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BiographyHistory

An editor at Twelfth Planet Press, Alexandra Pierce is also one of the podcasters for the Hugo  Award-winning Galactic Suburbia podcast. She has won Ditmar and Aurealis Awards for her podcasts work and non-fiction, and was the co-editor of both Letters to Tiptree (with Alisa Krasnostein) and Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler (with Mimi Mondal): the former won the William Atheling Award for Review or Criticism (Aurealis Awards), the Convenors’ Award for Excellence (Aurealis Awards), the Locus Award for Non-Fiction, and the British Fantasy Award for Non-Fiction

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2020 finalist Hugo Award Best Fancast with Tansy Rayner Roberts and Alisa Krasnostein, for Galactic Suburbia.
2019 finalist Hugo Award Best Fancast with Alisa Krasnostein and Tansy Rayner Roberts, for 'Galactic Suburbia'.
2018 shortlisted Ditmar Awards Best Fan Production in Any Medium for 'Galactic Suburbia' podcast.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Letters to Tiptree Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2015 8815653 2015 anthology correspondence

'In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Alice Sheldon’s birth, and in recognition of the enormous influence of both Tiptree and Sheldon on the field, Twelfth Planet Press is publishing a selection of thoughtful letters written by science fiction and fantasy’s writers, editors, critics and fans to celebrate her, to recognise her work, and maybe in some cases to finish conversations set aside nearly thirty years ago.' (Publication summary)

2016 winner British Fantasy Awards Non-Fiction
2016 winner Locus Awards Non-fiction
2016 winner Ditmar Awards William Atheling Jr Award
2016 shortlisted Ditmar Awards Best Collected Work
2015 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Peter McNamara Convenors' Award
y separately published work icon The 2010 Snapshot : Australian Speculative Fiction 2010 10660302 2010 anthology interview

'In February 2010 – in the lead up to Aussiecon 4, Australia’s fourth hosting of Worldcon, the international science fiction convention which also boasts the Hugo Awards – six interviewers, including myself, decided it was a great time to Snapshot again. In the space of a week, we managed to publish 90 interviews, covering internationally reknown authors, artists and editors including Margo Lanagan, Sean Williams, Jonathan Strahan and Nick Stathopoulos alongside up-and-coming writers such as Thoraiya Dyer, Felicity Dowker and Jason Fischer, as well as book bloggers, reviewers, publishers and commentators relevant in the specfic scene.'

Source: Australian SF Snapshot Project.

2011 Ditmar Awards Best Achievement
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