“When we last talked, in 2002, I mentioned my plans for the time-travel novel All Clear. Willis lives in Greeley CO with her husband Courtney, a physics teacher whom she married in 1967, and they have an adult daughter, Cordelia. Willis was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2008.

She is a frequent speaker and guest of honor at SF conventions, and much sought-after as a Toastmaster. Greenberg), Nebula Awards 33 (1999), and A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women (2001, with Sheila Williams). Willis also edited anthologies The New Hugo Winners Volume III (1994, with Martin H. Many of her stories have been collected in Fire Watch (1985), Impossible Things (1993), Miracle and Other Christmas Stories (1999), and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories (2007). Other notable stories, many of them award nominees, include “The Sidon in the Mirror” (1983), “Chance” (1986), “Spice Pogrom” (1986), “Schwarzschild Radius” (1987), “Time Out” (1990), “Cibola” (1990), “In the Late Cretaceous” (1991), “Jack” (1991), “Miracle” (1991), and “Just Like the Ones We Used to Know” (2003). Willis is a celebrated short fiction writer, and her award-winning works include “The Last of the Winnebagos” (1988, Hugo and Nebula), “At the Rialto” (1989, Nebula), “Even the Queen” (1992, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus), “Death on the Nile” (1993, Hugo), “Close Encounter” (1993, Locus), “The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson’s Poems: A Wellsian Perspective” (1996, Hugo), “Newsletter” (1997, Locus), “The Winds of Marble Arch” (1999, Hugo), “Inside Job” (2005, Hugo), and “All Seated on the Ground” (2007, Hugo). Her next novel will be published in two parts in 2010: Blackout and All Clear. Uncharted Territory and Remake (Locus Award winner and Hugo nominee) appeared in 1994, followed by Locus Award Winner and Nebula finalist Bellwether (1996), Hugo winner and Nebula nominee To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), and Passage (2001), winner of a Locus Award and finalist for both the Hugo and the Nebula.

Campbell Memorial Award, and her second, Doomsday Book (1992), won both the Hugo and Nebula and a Locus Award. First solo novel Lincoln’s Dreams (1987) won the John W. In 1982, she published Hugo- and Nebula-winning novelette “Fire Watch” and Nebula-winning story “A Letter from the Clearys”, the first of her many award-winning stories, which so far include ten Hugos and six Nebulas - more than any other SF writer - and ten Locus Awards.įirst novel Water Witch (1982) was a collaboration with Cynthia Felice they also wrote Light Raid (1989) and Promised Land (1997) together. Her first SF sale was “The Secret of Santa Titicaca” (1971), and she earned her first Hugo nomination for “Daisy in the Sun” (1979). Connie Willis was born in Denver CO and has lived in Colorado for most of her life.

Fire watch by connie willis