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Debbie Urbanski | |
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| Born | July 23, 1976 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Carleton College (BA) Syracuse University (MFA) |
| Genres | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Climate Fiction, Essays |
| Website | |
| https://debbieurbanski.com | |
Debbie Urbanski (born July 23, 1976) is an American author best known for her speculative prose and fantastical realism.[1] Her debut novel After World (Simon & Schuster, 2023) explores human extinction and climate change from the perspective of an artificial intellegence.[2] Her work has been featured in several anthologies including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy,[3] The Best American Experimental Writing,[4] and The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy.[5] Her debut collection of short stories, Portalmania, will be published in May 2025 by Simon & Schuster.[6]
Early life
[edit]Urbanski grew up in Chicago, Illinois and Orland Park, Illinois. In high school she reviewed movies for the Chicago Tribune. Upon acceptance to the Chicago Tribune's High School Movie Panel, she told the newspaper: "I've always read the teen panel but I've never written non-fiction. And I always go to $1.50 movies. It'll be nice to go to new movies and to be published."[7] She is a graduate of Carleton College[8] and the Creative Writing M.F.A. Program of Syracuse University.[9]
Career
[edit]Early in her career, Urbanski wrote poetry[10] but eventually transitioned to short stories and essays. For several years she wrote for children and teens,[11] publishing numerous stories in Highlights[12] as well as Cricket Media's Spider and Cicada magazines.[13] Working with editor Jestine Ware, Urbanski wrote what became Spider's first LGBTQIA+ story[14] about a hiking trip taken by a family with two moms.[15]
Common themes of Urbanski's recent work include the environment, identity, technology, and asexuality.[16][17] She has also written about her experiences with depression[18] and having a BRCA1 gene mutation.[19] She has published widely in such places as The Sun,[20] Orion,[21] Lightspeed,[22] Terraform via Motherboard/Vice Media,[23] Nature,[24] and Granta.[25] In 2019 she was awarded a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for fiction and nonfiction.[26] The award is given to emerging women writers of exceptional promise.
Selected works
[edit]After World
[edit]In Urbanski's debut novel After World (Simon & Schuster, 2023), humans have gone extinct to save the planet, and an artificial intellegence is tasked with telling the story of what happened to the last human on Earth. The story takes place in Syracuse, New York (where Urbanski lives now with her family) and in the New York State Forests south of Syracuse.[27] After World was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle,[28] Strange Horizons,[29] Los Angeles Times,[30] Engadget,[31] and Booklist,[32] and was a Climate Reality Project book club pick.[33]
Portalmania
[edit]The short stories in Urbanski's debut collection span across sci-fi, fantasy, horror and realism and touch upon themes of motherhood, relationships, asexuality, and love. Portalmania will be published by Simon & Schuster in May 2025.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Meet the 2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards Winners!". RJF. August 27, 2019.
- ^ "After World". December 5, 2023 – via www.simonandschuster.com.
- ^ "Amazon.com". Amazon.
- ^ Abramson, Seth; Damiani, Jesse (10 November 2020). Amazon.com. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0819579584.
- ^ Horton, Rich (10 August 2021). Amazon.com. Prime Books. ISBN 978-1607015383.
- ^ a b "Portalmania" – via www.simonandschuster.com.
- ^ Tribune, Chicago (October 30, 1992). "A MOVIE EXPERIENCE". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ "Huntington Poetry Prize - Carleton College". www.carleton.edu.
- ^ "Debbie Urbanski". College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University.
- ^ "Syracuse-based author explores AI, climate change, apocalypse in debut novel". WAER. April 2, 2024.
- ^ Ware, Jestine (November 16, 2018). "Ask an Author: Debbie Urbanski". Jestine Ware Editor.
- ^ "Amazon.com". Amazon.
- ^ https://info.cricketmedia.com/rs/357-NUK-896/images/VeryLongHike.pdf
- ^ Ware, Jestine (June 2, 2018). "One Queer Magazine Editor". Jestine Ware Editor.
- ^ "Cricket Media Expands LGBTQAI+ Content and Community for Kids, Teens". Mombian. April 5, 2018.
- ^ "Featured Contributor: Debbie Urbanski | The Sun Magazine". www.thesunmagazine.org.
- ^ "The Portal | The Sun Magazine". www.thesunmagazine.org.
- ^ Urbanski, Debbie (October 16, 2024). "Publishing A Novel Is Hard Especially If You Have Depression".
- ^ "The Picnic Pavilion". February 10, 2022.
- ^ "Debbie Urbanski | The Sun Magazine". www.thesunmagazine.org.
- ^ "Debbie Urbanski - - Orion Magazine".
- ^ Amberdine, Laurel (May 14, 2017). "Debbie Urbanski". Lightspeed Magazine.
- ^ "Debbie Urbanski". December 30, 2018.
- ^ Urbanski, Debbie (August 26, 2014). "Away". Nature. 512 (7514): 342. Bibcode:2014Natur.512..342U. doi:10.1038/512342a – via www.nature.com.
- ^ "Debbie Urbanski".
- ^ "Winner, Debbie Urbanski". RJF.
- ^ tcobb@syracuse.com, Timia Cobb (December 8, 2023). "New sci-fi novel 'After World' set in apocalyptic Syracuse and Upstate New York". syracuse.
- ^ "The Chronicle's favorite fiction and nonfiction books of 2023".
- ^ January 2025, Our Reviewers Issue: 6 (January 10, 2025). "2024 In Review: Part Three".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Column: The 10 best tech books of 2023". Los Angeles Times. December 22, 2023.
- ^ "Our favorite books we read in 2024". Engadget. December 21, 2024.
- ^ "Booklist Online: Leading Book Discovery". www.booklistonline.com.
- ^ "The Climate Reality Project on LinkedIn: Join the Climate Reality Book Club for a chat with author Debbie Urbanski..." www.linkedin.com.