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Anna Tambour is a writer and poet whose area of interest lies in speculative fiction, satire, fable and other strange and hard-to-categoris genres. her work as appeared in magazines and journals such as Quadrant, Subterranean, Sprawel and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and in anthologies such as Agog! : Ripping Reads (2006), The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2009), and Paper Cities (2009). Her collection Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales was published in 2003, followed in 2005 by the Spotted Lily. Since 2005 Tambour has also been publishing her own work and that of others through the sebsite Anna Tambour and Others, which also links to her blog site Medlar Comfits and Magnificants — Magnificent Insignificants.

Describing herself as being of 'of no fixed nationality, Tambour lives in the Australian bush with a large family of other species, including one man.'

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y separately published work icon The Finest Ass in the Universe Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2015 8141862 2015 selected work short story

'It’s been over ten years since the release of Tambour’s first collection, Monterra’s Deliciosa & Other Tales . Her novel, Crandolin, published by Chomu Press was shortlisted for the 2013 World Fantasy Award. All of Tambour’s books have been Locus Recommended Reading List selections. The world is well and truly ready for this latest instalment of Tambour’s weird and fantastic.

'The Finest Ass in the Universe will comprise over two dozen stories including four new works.

'Elation, compulsion, exploration, love and exquisitely timed bullying, a lascivious oyster, a man called Eggplant, the dangers of smelling like honey pudding, the enticement of innocent toadlets, the unending day of deadness. The daughter of a part-time magician and a Las Vegas showgirl turns to science. Destiny points a young man to brassiere design. Suddenly orphaned siblings try to protect their most vulnerable. Fortunes craze in neighbourhoods living cheek-by-jowl. Unintendeds abound, as life cavorts in all its unclassifiable contrariness.' (Publication summary(

2015 finalist Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Best Collection
The Walking-stick Forest 2014 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Tor.com Fiction , May 2014; The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014 2015;

'“The Walking-Stick Forest,” by Anna Tambour, is a dark fantasy about a recluse who creates collectible walking sticks in post-WWI Scotland by manipulating the woods somewhat like bonsais. He refuses a commission from a very rich, powerful man, never considering or caring about the consequences.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2015 finalist Locus Awards Short Story
y separately published work icon Crandolin Richmond : Chomu Press , 2012 13998489 2012 single work novel fantasy

'In a medieval cookbook in a special-collections library, near-future London, jaded food and drink authority Nick Kippax finds an alluring stain next to a recipe for the mythical crandolin. He tastes it, ravishing the page. Then he disappears... So begins an 'adwentour' that quantum-leapfrogs from Central Asia in the Middle Ages to Russia under Gorbachev, from the secrets of confectionery to the agonies of making a truly great moustache, from maidens in towers to tiffs between cosmic forces. Food, music, science, fruitloopery, superstition, railways, bladder-pipes and birth-marked Soviet statesmen; all are present in an extraordinary novel that is truly 'for the adwentoursomme'.' (Publication summary)

2013 finalist Locus Awards Fantasy Novel
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