Sonya Taaffe is an American author of short fiction and poetry based out of Massachusetts. She grew up in Arlington and Lexington, Massachusetts and graduated from Brandeis University in 2003 where she received a B.A. and M.A. in Classical Studies. She also received an M.A. in Classical Studies from Yale University in 2008.
Taaffe was first published in 2001, with "Shade and Shadow" in Not One of Us, "Turn of the Century, Jack-in-the-Green" in Mythic Delirium, and "Constellations, Conjunctions" in Maelstrom Speculative Fiction.[1]
Taaffe often writes for the small press magazine Not One of Us, for whose website she is the contributing editor.[2] She served as a co-editor in the Poetry Department of Strange Horizons magazine alongside AJ Odasso and Romie Stott until 2016.
Taaffe's poem "Matlacihuatl's Gift" won the Rhysling Award in 2003, and her poem "Follow Me Home" appeared in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection. Her short story "Retrospective" was shortlisted for the Speculative Literature Foundation's Fountain Award in 2004 and her poem "Muse" placed 2nd for the Dwarf Stars Award in 2008.[5] Taaffe's collection Forget the Sleepless Shores was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Speculative Fiction.
Selected bibliography
Poetry
"Matlacihuatl's Gift" (Dreams and Nightmares, Issue 63, 2002) (2003 Rhysling Award winner)
"Philon from Ithaka, Theas's Son" (Paradox, Issue 2, Summer 2003)
