| Mary Rickert | |
| Pseudonym: | M. Rickert |
| Birth Date: | 11 December 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Port Washington, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Nationality: | American |
| Genre: | Science fiction, fantasy |
Mary Rickert, known as M. Rickert (born December 11, 1959, in Port Washington, Wisconsin), is an American writer of fantasy fiction. Many of her stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her first collection, Map of Dreams, was published by Golden Gryphon Press in 2006; her second collection, Holiday, appeared in 2010 from the same publisher. She lives in Wisconsin.
Rickert's fiction has won or been nominated for several major awards. "Journey into the Kingdom" was nominated for the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and an International Horror Guild Award, and won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.[1] Map of Dreams won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection and the 2007 Crawford Award, and the collection's title story was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. On November 10, 2015, Small Beer Press will publish Rickert's third collection, You Have Never Been Here, containing selected stories from her first two collections, as well as three new stories, one of them a novella.
| Year | Title | Identifiers | Publisher | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Map of Dreams | Golden Gryphon Press | Contents: "Map of Dreams", "Dreams: Dreaming of the Sun", "Leda", "Cold Fires", "Angel Face", "Night Blossoms", "Nightmares: Feeding the Beast", "Bread and Bombs", "Art Is Not a Violent Subject", "Anyway", "A Very Little Madness Goes a Long Way", "Waking: What I Saw, When I Looked", "The Girl Who Ate Butterflies", "Many Voices", "More Beautiful Than You", "Peace on Suburbia", "Rising: Flight", "Moorina of the Seals", "The Harrowing", "The Super Hero Saves the World", "The Chambered Fruit" | ||
| 2010 | Holiday | Golden Gryphon Press | Contents: "Holiday", "Memoir of a Deer Woman", "Journey into the Kingdom", "The Machine", "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account", "Don't Ask", "Traitor", "Was She Wicked? Was She Good?", "You Have Never Been Here", "War is Beautiful", "The Christmas Witch" | ||
| 2015 | You Have Never Been Here | Small Beer Press | Contents: "Memoir of a Deer Woman", "Journey into the Kingdom", "The Shipbuilder", "Cold Fires", "The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece", "The Christmas Witch", "Holiday", "The Chambered Fruit", "The Mothers of Voorhisville", "You Have Never Been Here" |
| width=25% | Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="Girl who ate butterflies" | "The Girl Who Ate Butterflies" | 1999 | Rickert, M. . Aug 1999 . [<!--accessdate= --> The Girl Who Ate Butterflies ]. . 97 . 2 . 71–82 . | Book: Rickert, M. . Map of Dreams . Golden Gryphon Press . 2006 . | |
| "Angel Face" | 2000 | Rickert, M. . Jul 2000 . [<!--accessdate= --> Angel Face ]. . 99 . 1 . 50–55 . | Book: Rickert, M. . Map of Dreams . Golden Gryphon Press . 2006 . | ||
| "Moorina" | 2001 | Rickert, M. . Feb 2001 . Moorina . . 100 . 2 . 95–102. | |||
| "Journey into the Kingdom" | 2006 | Rickert, M. . May 2006 . Journey Into the Kingdom . . 110 . 5 . 132–158. | |||
| "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account" | 2008 | Rickert, M. . October–November 2008 . Evidence of Love In a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account . . 115 . 4&5 . 192–200. | Book: Rickert, M. . Map of Dreams . Golden Gryphon Press . 2006 . | ||
| "Evergreen" | 2019 | Rickert, M. . November 5, 2019 . Evergreen . . 137 . 11 & 12 . 129–135. | |||
| "Another F*cken Fairy Tale" | 2020 | Rickert, M. . May 5, 2020 . Another F*cken Fairy Tale . . 138 . 5 & 6 . 247–255. | |||
| "Last Night at the Fair" | 2020 | Rickert, M. . July–August 2020 . Last Night at the Fair . . 139 . 1 & 2 . 28–34. |