A.M. Dellamonica: Difference between revisions

| date_birth=February 25, 1968  

| pronouns=[[they/them]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/AlyxDellamonica|title=@AlyxDellamonica Twitter profile|access-date=August 8, 2021}}</ref>

| gender=[[genderqueer]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/alyxdellamonica/|title=@alyxdellamonica Instagram profile|quote=Queer & genderqueer Slytherin.|access-date=August 8, 2021}}</ref>, [[bigender]]<ref name="alyx_PressKit">{{Cite web |title=Press Kit – A.M. Dellamonica |author= |work=alyxdellamonica.com |date= |access-date=8 August 2021 |url= https://alyxdellamonica.com/press-kit/ |quote=Dellamonica tells people they are bigendered, bisexual and bisectional. (The latter means they sing both alto and soprano.) }}</ref><ref name="tweet2016">{{cite tweet |user=AlyxDellamonica|number=743281061069787136|date=June 15, 2016|title=Bigendered, bisectional, bisexual. The middle means I sing alto and soprano. I write SF/F/H. Legally married to @kellyoyo #QueerSelfLove}}</ref>

'''A.M. Dellamonica''' or '''Alyx Dellamonica''' is a [[bisexual]]<ref name="alyx_PressKit" /><ref name="tweet2016" /> Canadian science fiction writer who has published over forty short stories in the field since the 1980s. Dellamonica writes in a number of subgenres including science fiction, fantasy, and alternate history. Their stories have been selected for "Year's Best" science fiction anthologies in 2002 and 2007. Dellamonica also publishes some work under the pseudonym '''L.X. Beckett'''.<ref name="Locus 2019 interview">{{cite web|url=https://locusmag.com/2019/11/l-x-beckett-hopetopia/|title=L.X. Beckett: Hopetopia|website=Locus Magazine|date=November 25, 2019|accessdate=August 8, 2021}}</ref>

Dellamonica's Joan of Arc alternate history story "A Key to the Illuminated Heretic" was nominated for the 2005 Sidewise Award for Alternate History<ref>[http://www.uchronia.net/sidewise/complete.html#2005 2005 Sidewise Awards Finalists]</ref> and was on the 2005 Nebula Ballot.<ref>[http://www.sfwa.org/news/2007/06nebprelim.htm 2006 Preliminary Nebula Award Ballot] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013204038/http://www.sfwa.org/news/2007/06nebprelim.htm |date=October 13, 2007 }}</ref> In 2005, they received the Canada Council for the Arts' Grant for Emerging Artists<ref>[http://www.canadacouncil.ca/grants/recipients/#Canada Council for the Arts Searchable Grants Listing] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100928151009/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/grants/recipients/#Canada |date=September 28, 2010 }}</ref>

and in 2015 they received the Ontario Arts Council Grant for Writers' Works in Progress. Dellamonica's first novel, ''Indigo Springs'', was awarded the 2010 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.<ref>[http://www.sunburstaward.org/content/2010-sunburst-winners#2010 Sunburst Award Winners] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101108095737/http://www.sunburstaward.org/content/2010-sunburst-winners#2010 |date=November 8, 2010 }}</ref> In 2016, their fourth novel ''A Daughter of No Nation'' won the Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel.<ref>[http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/08/2016-aurora-awards-winners/ 2016 Aurora Award Winners]</ref>

*"[http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/06/the-color-of-paradox-am-dellamonica The Color of Paradox]", on Tor.com (2014)