Pat Murphy (writer) explained

Patrice Ann Murphy
Birth Date:	9 March 1955
Birth Place:	Washington, US
Awards:	Nebula Award World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction

Patrice Ann "Pat" Murphy (born March 9, 1955) is an American science writer and author of science fiction and fantasy novels.

Early life

Murphy was born on March 9, 1955, in Washington state.

Career

Murphy has used the ideas of the absurdist pseudophilosophy pataphysics in some of her writings. Along with Lisa Goldstein and Michaela Roessner, she has formed The Brazen Hussies to promote their work. Together with Karen Joy Fowler, Murphy co-founded the James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1991.

With her second novel, The Falling Woman (1986), she won the Nebula Award, and another Nebula Award in the same year for her novelette, "Rachel in Love." Her short story collection, Points of Departure (1990) won the Philip K. Dick Award, and her 1990 novella, Bones, won the World Fantasy Award in 1991.^[1]

From 1998 through 2018, Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty (a scientist and educator) jointly wrote the recurring 'Science' column in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction that typically appeared twice each year. Their last column was in the May/June 2018 issue; Doherty died in August 2017.

Personal life

She lives in Nevada and, for more than 20 years, when she was not writing science fiction, she worked at the Exploratorium, San Francisco's museum of science, art, and human perception.^[2] There, she published non-fiction as part of the museum staff.

In 2014, Murphy was hired by Doug Peltz to join Mystery Science (company) as the first employee, creating science curriculum for elementary school teachers.^[3]

She has a black belt in the martial art kenpō.^[4] ^[5]

Bibliography

Novels

The Shadow Hunter (1982; partially rewritten and republished in 2002)
The Falling Woman (1986)
The City, Not Long After (1989)
Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles (1996)
There and Back Again (1999)
Wild Angel (2001)
Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell (2002)
The Wild Girls (children's novel) (2007)

Short fiction

Collections

Points of Departure (1990)
Women Up to No Good (2013)

Stories^[6]

width=25%	Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
	1996	Murphy . Pat . Doizois . Gardner . Gardner Dozois . Rachel in Love . Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine . 1987.	Book: Sargent . Pamela . Pamela Sargent . Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years: Science fiction by women from the 1970s to the 1990s . 1995 . Harcourt Brace . San Diego. Book: Larbalestier . Justine . Justine Larbalestier . Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century . 2006 . Wesleyan University Press . Middletown . 9780819566751 . 217. With an essay "Simians, Cyborgs, and Women in 'Rachel in Love'," by Joan Haran. Online at Science Fiction Writers of America
A Flock of Lawn Flamingos	1996	Book: Murphy, Pat . Datlow, Ellen . Lethal kisses . Millenium . 1996 . A flock of lawn flamingos.

Anthologies edited

The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 (2005) with Debbie Notkin, Karen Joy Fowler and Jeffrey D. Smith. Tachyon Publications^[7]
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 (2006) with Debbie Notkin, Karen Joy Fowler and Jeffrey D. Smith. Tachyon Publications.
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3 (2007) with Debbie Notkin, Karen Joy Fowler and Jeffrey D. Smith. Tachyon Publications.

Nonfiction

Book: Joseph, James . Witold Klawe . Pat Murphy . Paintings by George Mattson . Tuna and billfish : fish without a country . La Jolla, Calif. . Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission . 1979 .
Imaginary Friends (1996 essay)
Before and After (1997 travel essay)
Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book by John Cassidy, Pat Murphy, and Paul Doherty (1991)
Book: Murphy, Pat . Bending light : an Exploratorium toolbook . 1993.
By Nature's Design (1993) by Pat Murphy
The Science Explorer (1996) by Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, and Linda Shore
The Color of Nature (1996) by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
The Science Explorer Out and About (1997) by Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, and Linda Shore
Zap Science: A Scientific Playground in a Book (1997) by John Cassidy, Paul Doherty, & Pat Murphy
Murphy, Pat . Paul Doherty . amp . March 2000 . . Science . . 98 . 3 . 119–126 . 2021-08-20-->.
Doherty, Paul . Pat Murphy . amp . May 2000 . . Science . . 98 . 5 . 108–116 . 2020-10-19-->.
Doherty, Paul . Pat Murphy . amp . 1 . 1 . Aug 2000 . . Science . . 99 . 2 . 112–120 . 2020-10-19-->.
Doherty, Paul . Pat Murphy . amp . 1 . 1 . Jan 2001 . . Science . . 100 . 1 . 114–121 . 2019-02-20-->.
Book: Murphy, Pat . Exploratopia . 2006 . 0-316-61281-2-->.
Doherty, Paul . Pat Murphy . amp . October–November 2008 . . Science . . 115 . 4&5 . 183–191 . 2020-01-13-->.
Doherty, Paul . Pat Murphy . amp . 1 . 1 . July–August 2011 . . Science . . 121 . 1&2 . 183–191 . 2021-02-18-->.

References

Web site: World Fantasy Convention. Award Winners and Nominees. February 4, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html. December 1, 2010. dead.
Web site: Teen Book Review interview . March 2008 . Teenbookreview.wordpress.com .
News: Team — Mystery.
Web site: Inkwell: Authors and Artists. October 4, 2000. www.well.com. November 3, 2013.
Book: Helen Merrick. Tess Williams. Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism. 1999. University of Western Australia Press. 978-1-876268-32-9. 342–.
Short stories unless otherwise noted.
Anthology of winners of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.