
James Patrick Kelly has written novels, short stories, essays, reviews, poetry, plays and planetarium shows. His most recent novel is Mother Go (2017), an audiobook original from Audible. His most recent short story collections are The Promise of Space (2017) from Prime Books and the career retrospective Masters of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly (2016) from Centipede Press. His previous novels include: Wildlife, Look Into The Sun, Freedom Beach with John Kessel and Planet of Whispers. He has published three other collections: The Wreck of the Godspeed, Strange But Not A Stranger and Think Like A Dinosaur. His short novel Burn won the Science Fiction Writers of America’s Nebula Award in 2007. He has won the World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo Award twice: in 1996, for his novelette “Think Like A Dinosaur” and in 2000, for his novelette, “Ten to the Sixteenth to One.” His fiction has been translated into eighteen languages. With John Kessel he is co-editor of the anthologies Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology, Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka, The Secret History Of Science Fiction, Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Rewired: The Post Cyberpunk Anthology and SFWA’s Nebula Awards® Showcase 2012. He has created two podcasts, James Patrick Kelly’s Storypod on Audible.com and the Free Reads Podcast. He writes a column on the internet for Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and is on the faculty of the Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.
