Samuel R. Delany sdelany@temple.edu 215-204-7344 Anderson 955

Samuel R. Delany writes in multiple genres. His books of fiction include Dhalgren, Babel-17, Empire Star, Aye and Gomorrah (published by Vintage Books) as well as Nova, Driftglass, The Einstein Connection, Hogg, and many more. Non-fiction works include Times Square Red, Time Square Blue; Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction and Some Comics; and The Motion of Light and Water: East Village Sex and Science Fiction Writing, 1960-1965. 

Delany's trilogy (The Fall of the Towers: Out of the Dead, The Towers of Toron, and City of a Thousand Suns) was recently published as one volume by Vintage Books, a Division of Random House. Other recent works include Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Three Interviews About Writing, and the short novel Phallos. His 2007 novel Dark Reflections, won the Stonewall Book Award. He is also the editor of Paradoxa: Fifties Fictions (edited with Josh Lukin)

Delany's fiction appears in dozens of anthologies, among them The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Great Short Science Fiction Novels, Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Anthology, as well as Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian and Gay African American Fiction. He is the recipient of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards from the Science Fiction Writers of America and the World Science Fiction Convention, as well as the Chancellor's Medal for Distinguished Intellectual Service at the University of Massachusetts, the Kessler Award for Lesbian and Gay Scholarship from CLAGS [Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies] at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a Lifetime's Contribution to Lesbian and Gay Publishing.

Aside from teaching fiction writing workshops, Professor Delany also teaches seminars in fiction and poetry. Recent seminars include "Studies in Prose Fiction," and "Ideas and Forms: The Modern Lyric."

Read a recent interview with Delany at the following links:

http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns6566/lukin_josh_ns6566_iae.shtml
http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns6566/iae_ns6566_wiggleroomoftheory.s\html