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 PNH in Oct 2006 | |
| Born | (1959-01-02) January 2, 1959 (age 66) Lansing, Michigan |
| Occupation | Editor |
| Nationality | United States  |
| Genre | non-fiction (writer); science fiction, fantasy (editor) |
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| http://www.nielsenhayden.com | |
Patrick James Nielsen Hayden (born Patrick James Hayden January 2, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan), often abbreviated as PNH, is an American science fiction editor, fan, fanzine publisher, essayist, reviewer, anthologist, teacher and blogger. He is a World Fantasy Award and Hugo Award winner (with nine nominations for the latter award), and is a Senior Editor and the Manager of Science Fiction at Tor Books. He changed his last name to "Nielsen Hayden" on his marriage to Teresa Nielsen (now Teresa Nielsen Hayden) in 1979.
Career
Before moving to the New York area in the 1980s to break into publishing, he previously lived in Seattle, where he did some of his most productive fanzine publishing. Like Damon Knight, Frederik Pohl, Terry Carr, and David G. Hartwell, he was active in science fiction fandom before he entered professional publishing.
After moving to New York, he worked at Literary Guild as an editorial assistant, then at Chelsea House as an associate editor. He joined Tor Books in the mid-1980s as an assistant and has worked there ever since. He is also a writer, teacher, and musician. He plays guitar and sings on occasion for the New York rock band Whisperado. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
He has published a number of essays and reviews. He has contributed to a number of books and magazines, including The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2nd edition, 1993) and The Map: Rediscovering Rock and Roll.
He is one of the regular instructors at Viable Paradise, a science fiction writing workshop held on Martha's Vineyard, and has also taught at both U.S. Clarion Workshops.
He used to be active on the Usenet groups rec.arts.sf.* in the 1990s. Since July 2000 he wrote a blog Electrolite until it was incorporated into his wife's blog Making Light in May 2005, where he now writes along with her, with Viable Paradise co-teacher, SF writer James D. Macdonald and SF fan Avram Grumer. He supports liberal issues, is critical of George W. Bush's administration and the Iraq War, and has repeatedly criticised Misplaced Pages's model of operation: "I've joked that Misplaced Pages's tagline ought to be 'The online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, so long as they're willing to devote hundreds of hours of energy to fighting people with autistically long attention spans.'"
Hugo swards and nominations
- 2007 winner for Hugo Award for Best Editor Long Form, also 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 nominee for Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor
- 1989 co-nominee for Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine for The New York Review of Science Fiction
- 1986, 1987 nominee for Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer
- 1984 co-nominee, with Teresa Nielsen Hayden, for Hugo Award for Best Fanzine for Izzard
Fanzine Editor, Small Press Publisher & Magazine Editor
He has worked on a number of science fiction fanzines over the years, including Twibbet, Thangorodrim, Tweek, Ecce Fanno, Telos, Zed, Flash Point.
- Though their small press, Ansatz Press, Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden published Samuel R. Delany's Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions
- From 1982 to 1987, he edited and published the fanzine Izzard with his wife Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
- From 1985 to 1989, he served on the editorial board of The Little Magazine, a poetry magazine, along with David G. Hartwell, Samuel R. Delany, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Kathryn Cramer, and Susan Palwick.
- In 1988, he was one of the founding editors of The New York Review of Science Fiction, for which he did the basic design still in use today. He left the magazine after several issues.
His entry in "Who's Who in SF Fandom" has a much more detailed list of his fanzine publications.
Anthologies
- Alternate Skiffy (Wildside Press, 1997) with Mike Resnick (ISBN 1-880448-54-8)
- New Skies (Tor, 2003)
- New Magics: An Anthology of Today's Fantasy (Tor, 2004)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens: First Annual Collection (Tor, 2005) with Jane Yolen
Starlight original science fiction & fantasy anthology series:
- Starlight 1 (Tor, 1996) – won a World Fantasy Award
- Starlight 2 (Tor, 1998)
- Starlight 3 (Tor, 2001)
Short Fiction
- "Binding" in Aladdin: Master of the Lamp, 1992, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg
- "Sincerity" in More Whatdunits, 1993, ed. Mike Resnick
- "Return" in Xanadu, 1993, ed. Jane Yolen (also available online).
References
- Comment at John Scalzi's weblog post describing the edit war about sourcing the death date for Fred Saberhagen's entry
- Samuel R. Delany (1988). Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions.
- Patrick Nielsen Hayden at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- "NIELSEN HAYDEN, Patrick (James) (1959- )". Who's Who in SF Fandom.
External links
- http://NielsenHayden.com – personal website
- http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight – weblog
- http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/stop.html – archive of the old personal weblog
- Spring 2001 Interview by Darrell Schweitzer
- Interview from 2004/7
- PNH's Usenet posts from 1992–2002 in Google Groups
- Patrick Nielsen Hayden at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- List of edited books since 2006 at Science Fiction and Fantasy Editor Wiki