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Theodora Goss

Goss, Teodóra Eszter

September 30, 1968 (age 57)

Birth place: Budapest, Hungary

116 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
April 2001 9 Poem Soliloquy with Flowers Dreams of Decadence #14, Summer 2001
June 2001 29 Poem By Tidal Pools Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, June 2001
June 2001 29 Poem Chrysanthemums Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, June 2001
June 2001 29 Poem Helen in Sparta Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, June 2001
November 2001 Poem Falling Boy Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, November 2001
November 2001 Poem The Ophelia Cantos Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, November 2001
April 2002 58 Short Fiction The Rose in Twelve Petals Realms of Fantasy, April 2002
August 2002 Review A Scattering of Jades Strange Horizons, 19 August 2002
November 2002 Review The Fall of the Kings Strange Horizons, 11 November 2002
November 2002 2 Short Fiction The Rapid Advance of Sorrow Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, November 2002
March 2003 25 Poem Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks Mythic Delirium, Winter/Spring 2003
October 2003 3 Short Fiction In the Forest of Forgetting Realms of Fantasy, October 2003
November 2003 Short Fiction Sleeping with Bears Strange Horizons, 17 November 2003
December 2003 15 Short Fiction Lily, with Clouds Alchemy, Winter 2003
June 2004 3 Short Fiction Miss Emily Gray Alchemy, #2
November 2004 60 Interview Featured Author Interview: Theodora Goss Simulacrum: The Magazine of Speculative Transformation, November 2004
November 2004 35 Review The Rose in Twelve Petals and Other Stories Locus, #526 November 2004
January 2005 88 Essay untitled (Simulacrum, January 2005) Simulacrum: The Magazine of Speculative Transformation, January 2005
May 2005 Essay Speculative Poetry: A Symposium, Part 1 of 2 Strange Horizons, 2 May 2005
May 2005 Essay Speculative Poetry: A Symposium, Part 2 of 2 Strange Horizons, 9 May 2005
May 2005 Short Fiction The Belt Flytrap, May 2005
August 2005 40 Short Fiction A Statement in the Case Realms of Fantasy, August 2005
October 2005 Short Fiction Pip and the Fairies Strange Horizons, 3 October 2005
January 2006 15 Review In the Forest of Forgetting Locus, #540 January 2006
January 2006 21 Short Fiction Lessons with Miss Gray Fantasy Magazine #2, Spring 2006
January 2006 27 Short Fiction Letters from Budapest Alchemy, #3
January 2006 15 Interview The Theory and Practice of Fantastical Writing: A Conversation with Theodora Goss Fantasy Magazine #2, Spring 2006
March 2006 27 Review In the Forest of Forgetting Locus, #542 March 2006
July 2006 29 Poem Bal Macabre Mythic Delirium, Summer/Fall 2006
August 2006 38 Review In the Forest of Forgetting Realms of Fantasy, August 2006
September 2006 Review In the Forest of Forgetting Strange Horizons, 18 September 2006
2007 35 Essay On "Pip and the Fairies" The SFWA Bulletin, Spring 2007
January 2007 24 Review In the Forest of Forgetting Vector 250
June 2007 13 Review Interfictions Locus, #557 June 2007
June 2007 |7.1 Review Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing Ideomancer, June 2007
June 2007 76 Short Fiction Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon Realms of Fantasy, June 2007
July 2007 Review Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing Strange Horizons, 23 July 2007
September 2007 36 Poem The Witch Heliotrope, Fall 2007
October 2007 Short Fiction Catherine and the Satyr Strange Horizons, 1 October 2007
November 2007 22 Review Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing The New York Review of Science Fiction, November 2007
March 2008 |7.1 Review Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing Serendipity, Issue 7, March 2008
May 2008 6 Interview Theodora Goss: Shifting Ground Locus, #568 May 2008
August 2008 |3 Short Fiction Her Mother's Ghosts Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2008
August 2008 |4 Essay Writing My Mother's Ghosts Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2008
December 2008 Review Voices from Fairyland: The Fantastical Poems of Mary Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, and Sylvia Townsend Warner Strange Horizons, 22 December 2008
March 2009 6 Short Fiction The Puma Apex Magazine, March 2009
August 2009 6 Poem The Gentleman Mythic Delirium, Summer/Fall 2009
2010 8 Essay Strange Faces Weird Tales, Summer 2010
January 2010 Serial The Mad Scientist's Daughter (Part 1 of 2) Strange Horizons, 18 January 2010
January 2010 Serial The Mad Scientist's Daughter (Part 2 of 2) Strange Horizons, 25 January 2010
August 2010 Short Fiction Fair Ladies Apex Magazine, August 2010
September 2010 35 Poem As I Was Walking Mythic Delirium, Summer/Fall 2010
September 2010 30 Poem Death Mythic Delirium, Summer/Fall 2010
October 2010 |5 Poem Ravens Goblin Fruit, Autumn 2010
December 2010 Interview Crossing Borders & Exploring Possibilities: A Conversation with Theodora Goss Clarkesworld Magazine, December 2010
February 2011 18 Essay Folkroots: The Femme Fatale at the Fin-de-Siècle Realms of Fantasy, February 2011
April 2011 21 Poem Binnorie Mythic Delirium, Summer/Fall 2011
April 2011 10 Essay Folkroots: Vampires in Folklore and Literature Realms of Fantasy, April 2011
July 2011 28 Short Fiction Pug Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2011
November 2011 Interview Author Spotlight: Theodora Goss (Fantasy Magazine, November 2011) Fantasy Magazine, November 2011
November 2011 Short Fiction Christopher Raven Fantasy Magazine, November 2011
March 2012 Interview InterGalactic Interview with Theodora Goss Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #27, March 2012
March 2012 55 Review The Thorn and the Blossom Locus, #614 March 2012
March 2012 22 Review The Thorn and the Blossom Locus, #614 March 2012
March 2012 Review The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story Strange Horizons, 5 March 2012
July 2012 |23 Interview Author Spotlight: Theodora Goss (Lightspeed, July 2012) Lightspeed, July 2012
July 2012 |14 Short Fiction Singing of Mount Abora Lightspeed, July 2012
July 2012 10 Poem Vivian to Merlin Mythic Delirium, Summer/Fall 2012
July 2012 6 Poem What Would You Think Mythic Delirium, Summer/Fall 2012
August 2012 39 Short Fiction Beautiful Boys Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2012
October 2012 Short Fiction England Under the White Witch Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2012
November 2012 64 Review The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November-December 2012
January 2013 |24 Interview Author Spotlight: Theodora Goss Lightspeed, January 2013
January 2013 |15 Short Fiction Child-Empress of Mars Lightspeed, January 2013
January 2013 34 Review The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January-February 2013
February 2013 Short Fiction The Mad Scientist's Daughter StarShipSofa, No 278
June 2013 |22 Interview Author Spotlight: Theodora Goss Lightspeed, June 2013
July 2014 |23 Interview Author Spotlight: Theodora Goss Lightspeed, July 2014
July 2014 |2 Short Fiction Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology Lightspeed, July 2014
October 2014 17 Review Songs for Ophelia Star*Line, Fall 2014
2015 64 Essay Into the Forest: The Fairy Tale Heroine's Journey Faerie Magazine, Spring 2015
2015 19 Essay The Fin-de-Siècle Monster Story, Issue 2
January 2015 |220 Interview Author Spotlight: Theodora Goss Lightspeed, January 2015
March 2015 Review Songs for Ophelia Strange Horizons, 23 March 2015
September 2015 |22 Interview Author Spotlight: Theodora Goss Lightspeed, September 2015
September 2015 |8 Short Fiction Estella Saves the Village Lightspeed, September 2015
October 2015 |3 Poem Swan Girls Strange Horizons, 5 October 2015
November 2015 13 Short Fiction In Autumn Daily Science Fiction, November 2015
April 2016 |18 Interview Author Spotlight: Theodora Goss Lightspeed, April 2016
April 2016 Poem The Bear's Wife Mythic Delirium, Issue 2.4, April–June 2016
May 2016 |1 Short Fiction Red As Blood and White As Bone Tor.com, May 4, 2016
November 2016 |16 Poem Rose Child Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2016
January 2017 80 Short Fiction To Budapest, with Love Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2017
February 2017 |4 Interview Interview: Theodora Goss Uncanny Podcast, 7 February 2017
March 2017 Short Fiction Come See the Living Dryad Tor.com, March 9, 2017
May 2017 |2 Poem Seven Shoes Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2017
June 2017 14 Review The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Locus, #677 June 2017
September 2017 |14 Interview Interview: Theodora Goss Lightspeed, September 2017
September 2017 |12.1 Review The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Lightspeed, September 2017
November 2017 17 Short Fiction Snow, Blood, Fur Daily Science Fiction, November 2017
2018 32 Essay Professor Tolkien and the Faeries Faerie Magazine, Spring 2018
May 2018 |13 Poem Persephone in Hades Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2018
June 2018 14 Review European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman Locus, #689 June 2018
June 2018 28 Interview Monstrous Voices Locus, #689 June 2018
July 2018 |12.1 Review European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman Lightspeed, July 2018
September 2018 211 Short Fiction Elena's Egg Lightspeed, September 2018
November 2018 |15 Interview Author Spotlight: Theodora Goss Lightspeed, November 2018
November 2018 |4 Short Fiction Queen Lily Lightspeed, November 2018
2019 58 Poem Mr. Fox Enchanted Living, Spring 2019
2019 |4 Review That Is Not How the Story Goes Dead Reckonings, No. 25, Spring 2019
May 2019 |15 Poem The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2019
November 2019 |7 Short Fiction A Country Called Winter Lightspeed, November 2019
2021 22 Essay Fairy Gifts: The Magic of Generosity in Fairy Tales Enchanted Living, Autumn 2021
January 2021 |15 Poem Medusa Gets a Haircut Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2021
June 2021 |9 Short Fiction How to Become a Witch-Queen Lightspeed, June 2021
January 2023 |2 Poem The Witch Makes Her To-Do List Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2023

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2003 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story The Rose in Twelve Petals Nominee
2004 Rhysling Award Long Poem Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks Winner
2005 World Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction The Wings of Meister Wilhelm Nominee
2006 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Pip and the Fairies Nominee
2007 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing Nominee
2007 Locus Poll Award Best Collection In the Forest of Forgetting Nominee
2007 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Lessons with Miss Gray Nominee
2007 Nebula Award Short Story Pip and the Fairies Nominee
2008 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon Nominee
2008 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Singing of Mount Abora Nominee
2008 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Catherine and the Satyr Nominee
2008 Mythopoeic Award Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature In the Forest of Forgetting Nominee
2008 Rhysling Award Long Poem How Raven Made His Bride Nominee
2008 World Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction Singing of Mount Abora Winner
2010 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Child-Empress of Mars Nominee
2011 Hugo Award Best Novelette The Mad Scientist's Daughter Nominee
2011 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette The Mad Scientist's Daughter Runner-up
2011 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Fair Ladies Nominee
2011 Rhysling Award Long Poem Ravens Nominee
2012 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Pug Nominee
2013 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story Nominee
2013 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story England Under the White Witch Nominee
2013 Rhysling Award Short Poem What Would You Think Nominee
2014 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Estella Saves the Village Nominee
2015 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology Nominee
2015 Mythopoeic Award Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Songs for Ophelia Nominee
2016 Seiun Award Best Translated Short Story Beautiful Boys Nominee
2017 Hugo Award Best Novelette Red As Blood and White As Bone Nominee
2017 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Nominee
2017 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Red As Blood and White As Bone Nominee
2017 Rhysling Award Long Poem Rose Child Winner
2018 Compton Crook Award Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel) The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Nominee
2018 Hugo Award Best Novel The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Nominee
2018 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Winner
2018 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Come See the Living Dryad Nominee
2018 Nebula Award Novel The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Nominee
2018 World Fantasy Award Best Novel The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Nominee
2019 Locus Poll Award Best Fantasy Novel European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman Finalist
2019 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Queen Lily Nominee
2019 Lord Ruthven Award Fiction European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman Winner
2020 Hugo Award Best Novelette A Country Called Winter Nominee
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Snow White Learns Witchcraft Finalist
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Fantasy Novel The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl Nominee
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette A Country Called Winter Nominee
2020 Mythopoeic Award Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Snow White Learns Witchcraft Winner
2020 Rhysling Award Long Poem The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly Runner-up
2020 Shirley Jackson Award Best Short Fiction How to Become a Witch-Queen Nominee
2022 Rhysling Award Long Poem Medusa Gets a Haircut Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Collection The Collected Enchantments Nominee
2024 Rhysling Award Long Poem The Witch Makes Her To-Do List Runner-up

Born Teodóra Eszter Muszbek; she was married to the scientist Kendrick Goss from 1992 to 2013.
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