Judith Berman
"Berman's utterly absorbing, unforgettable first novel announces a truly original and unique voice in fantasy."
--Booklist (starred review)
"A richly imaginative tour de force."
--Locus
"Gripping, moving, frightening, enchanting... one of the very best books I've read all year."
--Terri Windling
"A revelation!.... From the very first sentence, when Cloud changes from a bear to a girl, this novel sets off for lands you've never been to and adventures like no others you've ever read."
--James Patrick Kelly
"A skillful, passionate writer...evokes the best of Ursula Le Guin"
--Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's
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RECENT & FORTHCOMING:
Fiction
• "Awakening," Black Gate #10, Spring 2007. Finalist, 2007 Nebula Award; 2007 Locus Recommended Reading List.
• Bear Daughter, Ace Books, 2005. Finalist, 2006 Crawford Award; 2005 Locus Recommended Reading List. Read a chapter. Strange Horizons Interview. Reviews.
• "The Poison Well," Black Gate #7, Fall 2004. Twilight Tales Interview.
• "The Fear Gun," Asimov’s, July 2004. Finalist, 2005 Theodore Sturgeon Award; one of Locus's "Best of the Best" short stories for 2004.
• Lord Stink and Other Stories, Small Beer Press, 2002.
Criticism
• 2006. "Bears, bombs, and popcorn: Some considerations when mining other cultures for source materials," Vector 247:17-9.
Anthropology
• Forthcoming. "Relating deep genealogies, oral history, and early documentary records in Southeast Alaska: Questions, problems, progress," in Steve Henrikson, Andrew J. Hope III and Sergei Kan, eds., Sharing Our Knowledge. Publisher TBA.
• Forthcoming. "'That which is most important': Louis Shotridge on crest art and clan history," in Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer and Ron Hamilton, eds., The Idea of Northwest Coast Native Art: A Critical Historiography. Lincoln: University of British Columbia Press.
• 2004. "'Some mysterious means of fortune': A look at Northwest Coast oral history," in Marie Mauzé, Michael Harkin and Sergei Kan, eds., Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions, pp. 129-162. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
• 2004. "Giver," in Brian Swann, ed., Voices From Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America, pp. 83-104. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
• 2003. "Unpublished materials of Franz Boas and George Hunt: A record of 45 years of collaboration," in Igor Krupnik and William W. Fitzhugh, eds., Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902, pp. 181-213. Arctic Studies Center Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology 1. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.
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