Susan Candace Petrey (7 April 1945 – 5 December 1980) was an American writer of fantasy short fiction.
Biography
editBorn in Seattle, Petrey worked as a medical technologist at Oregon State University, after obtaining a degree in microbiology. Described as an "intensely private person," Petrey was married to a fellow academic in 1967, and divorced in 1970. She rarely shared details of her personal life with peers.[1][2]
Most of her writing took place in a setting involving "gentle healing vampires", the Varkela.[3] Only three of her stories were professionally published during her lifetime.[3] More of her work appeared in the posthumous collection Gifts of Blood in 1990.[4] In 1981, she was nominated, also posthumously, for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her story "Spidersong" was nominated for the Hugo Award.[3]
Petrey was active in the Portland, Oregon science fiction fandom. A group of her friends established the Susan C. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund[5] in her memory. The fund annually raised money to send aspiring writers to the Clarion Workshop, until the fund was ended in 2023. Some of the writers it supported in the forty-three years it ran include Ted Chiang, Corey Doctorow, Samuel R. Delany, Carmen Maria Machado and Karen Joy Fowler.[3][6]
References
edit- ↑ "Oregon, U.S., State Divorces, 1925-1971". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 2026-04-20.
- ↑ "Susan C. Petrey | History | Research Starters | EBSCO Research". EBSCO. Retrieved 2026-04-20.
- 1 2 3 4 Cross, Debbie; Wrigley, Paul M. (11 November 2014). "Author Spotlight: Susan C. Petrey - Lightspeed Magazine". Lightspeed Magazine. Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ↑ Davis Nicoll, James (18 June 2018). "Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1970s, Part VIII". Tor.com. Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ↑ "Susan C. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund – OSFCI". osfci.org. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ↑ "Susan C. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund". osfci.org. Retrieved 2026-04-20.
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