About Suzanne Palmer
Born 1968. Suzanne Palmer is an American writer.
Suzanne Palmer is an American science fiction writer known for her novelette "The Secret Life of Bots", which won a Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2018. The story also won a WSFA Small Press Award and was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award.
Career Palmer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was the head librarian of the UMass Science Fiction Society. She cites John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, and Martha Wells as some of her influences and describes her primary genre as "space opera-style science fiction". She moderates the SFF room on the AbsoluteWrite forums using her online name zanzjan. She has since published three more novels in that series: Driving the Deep, The Scavenger Door, and Ghostdrift.
In 2020, Palmer won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for her story "Waterlines".
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