#ArtLitPhx: Retelling Fairy Tales with Ursula Vernon

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Event Description:

Re-telling Fairy Tales for Fun and Profit: An Authors Perspective with Ursula Vernon

Friday, October 12, 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Pulliam Auditorium, Burton Barr Central Library
1221 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85004

To learn more and RSVP, visit https://ursula-vernon-fairy-tales.eventbrite.com

More information about this talk is coming soon.

About the Author
Ursula Vernon is the author and illustrator of far more projects than is probably healthy. She has written over fifteen books for children, several novels for adults, an epic webcomic called “Digger” and various short stories and other odds and ends.

Her work has been nominated for the Eisner, World Fantasy, and longlisted for the British Science Fiction Awards. It has garnered a number of Webcomics Choice Awards, enough Junior Library Guild Selections to allow her to cosplay as a six-star general, and a mention in the New York Times, which she did not get tattooed to her forehead, despite her mother’s insistence.

Her webcomic “Digger” won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story (2012) and the Mythopoeic Award (2013.) Her short story “Jackalope Wives” won the Nebula for Best Short Story, the Coyotl Award, and the WSFA Small Press Award (2015.) Her series Dragonbreath won the Sequoyah Award for Children’s Literature, and her series Hamster Princess has been nominated for the Texas Bluebonnet Award and made the Amelia Bloomer List for feminist children’s literature. Her stand-alone novel Castle Hangnail won the Mythopoeic Award for Children’s Literature in 2016. Her novelette “The Tomato Thief” won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2017.

Her current project is the Hamster Princess series of books for kids. She also writes for adults under the name T. Kingfisher.