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Amal El-Mohtar



Amal El-Mohtar is a Canadian-born child of the Mediterranean, currently pursuing a PhD in English Literature at the Cornwall Campus of the University of Exeter. She received the 2009 Rhysling award for her poem "Song for an Ancient City," and has received a Nebula nomination for "The Green Book," a short story published in the Arab/Muslim issue of APEX magazine. Her work has appeared in many online and print publications, including STRANGE HORIZONS, WEIRD TALES, and IDEOMANCER. A full bibliography is available here: http://www.writertopia.com/profiles/AmalElMohtar. She also co-edits GOBLIN FRUIT, an online quarterly dedicated to fantastical poetry, with Jessica P. Wick. Find it online at http://www.goblinfruit.net. Her work has appeared in many print and online venues, She drinks tremendous amounts of tea, plays the harp, and keeps a Livejournal somewhat tidy at http://tithenai.livejournal.com
 

Awards: Hugo (2020), BSFA (2020), Nebula (2019)  see all

Genres: Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
Novels
   The River Has Roots (2025)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Books containing stories by Amal El-Mohtar
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Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two (2024)
(Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, book 2)
edited by
Stephen Kotowych
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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 (2024)
(Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, book 10)
edited by
Hugh Howey
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The Year's Best Fantasy: Volume 3 (2024)
(Year's Best Fantasy , book 3)
edited by
Paula Guran

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Awards
2020 Locus Award for Best Novella : This Is How You Lose the Time War
2020 Hugo Award for Best Novella : This Is How You Lose the Time War
2020 BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction : This Is How You Lose the Time War
2019 Nebula Award for Best Novella : This Is How You Lose the Time War
2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : Seasons of Glass and Iron
2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : Seasons of Glass and Iron

Award nominations
2025 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The River Has Roots
2025 BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction (nominee) : The River Has Roots
2024 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : John Hollowback and the Witch
2024 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : John Hollowback and the Witch
2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : This Is How You Lose the Time War
2020 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella (nominee) : This Is How You Lose the Time War
2019 Ray Bradbury Prize (nominee) : This Is How You Lose the Time War
2017 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Seasons of Glass and Iron
2017 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Seasons of Glass and Iron
2017 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction (nominee) : Seasons of Glass and Iron
2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Pockets
2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Madeleine
2014 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : A Hollow Play
2010 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Green Book


Amal El-Mohtar recommends
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A Widow's Charm (2026)
Caitlyn Paxson
"A Widow's Charm is an absolute delight from start to finish: a lush garden of warmth, wonder, and appetite that will leave you pleasantly sated and hungry for more."
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The Water Outlaws (2023)
(Water Outlaws, book 1)
S L Huang
"Burning Roses by S. L. Huang is a beautiful, deeply affecting novella that braids Western fairy-tale traditions with Chinese mythology in a way calculated to mash my every emotional button."
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Saint Death's Daughter (2022)
(Saint Death, book 1)
C S E Cooney
"Saint Death's Daughter is a tumultuous, swaggering, cackling story, a gorgeous citrus orchard with bones for roots. Miscellaneous Stones' journey into adulthood and power, sorting knowledge from wisdom and vengeance from justice, has an ocean's breadth and depth, its storms and sparkles and salt. Soaring with love and absolutely fizzing with tenderness and joy--I have never read anything so utterly alive."

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