Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Born Teresa Nielsen, she grew up in a Mormon household in Mesa, Arizona.[8]

From 1985 to 1989, she served on the editorial board of The Little Magazine, a poetry magazine.[9]

She is a former managing editor and a former consulting editor at Tor Books.[1][2][9] In 1994, a collection of her essays, Making Book (ISBN 0-915368-55-2), was published by NESFA Press. It is now in its third printing. The second printing is the preferred edition.[10]

She is also one of the regular instructors for the writing workshop Viable Paradise.[1]

Nielsen Hayden is well known for her weblog, Making Light, where she writes about subjects such as animal hoarding, publishing scams, astroturfing,[11] and global political events. She is the first recorded Internet editor to practice disemvoweling of the entire text of offensive posts; the term itself was coined in a Making Light post by Arthur Hlavaty.[12] She was the first lead comments moderator at the popular blog Boing Boing when it reopened its comments feature in 2007. In June 2008, a controversy on Boing Boing concerning the "unpublication" of all articles that mention sex columnist Violet Blue generated criticism of some of her moderation techniques, including disemvowelment.[13][14][15]

Teresa Nielsen appended Hayden to her name upon marrying the former Patrick Hayden in 1979; he also took her name, becoming Patrick Nielsen Hayden. The two of them were active members of science fiction fandom and collaborated on various fanzines, including the Hugo-nominated Izzard.[4] In 1985, Nielsen Hayden and her husband were TransAtlantic Fan Fund delegates to Europe for Eastercon. Over the next few years, the Nielsen Haydens published at least three TAFF trip reports.[16]

She was excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1980 for her support of the Equal Rights Amendment.[8] In her youth, she served as a page in the Arizona House of Representatives.[17]

Nielsen Hayden has narcolepsy,[18] for which she had been taking pemoline until the Food and Drug Administration withdrew the drug from the marketplace.[19][20][21][22] In September 2008 she had what appeared to be a heart attack; paramedics were summoned immediately, and she made a full recovery.[23]

• 1995 nominee for Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book for Making Book[7]
• 1991 nominee for Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer[6]
• 1989 co-nominee for Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine for The New York Review of Science Fiction[5]
• 1984 nominee for Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer[4]
• 1984 co-nominee, with Patrick Nielsen Hayden, for Hugo Award for Best Fanzine for Izzard[4]

• Poul Anderson: Alight in the Void
• Steven Brust: Dragon,[24] Issola,[25] Dzur,[26] The Paths of the Dead,[27] The Lord of Castle Black,[28] Sethra Lavode,[29] Jhegaala,[30] Iorich,[31] Tiassa,[32] The Incrementalists,[33] Hawk [34]
• Avram Davidson: The Avram Davidson Treasury (Locus poll winner, Best Collection, 1999)[35]
• Samuel R. Delany: Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions (published with Patrick Nielsen Hayden under the imprint Ansatz Press, 1988)[9][36]
• John M. Ford: The Last Hot Time[37]
• Shariann Lewitt: Memento Mori, Interface Masque, Rebel Sutra
• Jane Lindskold: The Buried Pyramid,[38] Child of a Rainless Year,[39] Through Wolf's Eyes,[40] Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart, The Dragon of Despair,[41] Wolf Captured,[42] Wolf Hunting,[43] Wolf's Blood[44]
• James D. Macdonald and Debra Doyle: The Stars Asunder[45]
• Terry McGarry: The Binder's Road,[46] Triad[47]
• Douglas Morgan: Tiger Cruise
• Harry Turtledove: Conan of Venarium,[48] The Breath of God[49]
• James White: The Galactic Gourmet, Mind Changer,[50] Final Diagnosis,[51] Double Contact[52]
• Charles Vess: The Book of Ballads[53]
• Robert Charles Wilson: Darwinia (Prix Aurora Award winner, 1999),[54] Blind Lake (Prix Aurora Award winner, 2004),[55] Spin (Hugo Award winner, 2006),[56] Axis,[57] Julian Comstock,[58] Vortex,[59] Burning Paradise[60]

• Making Book. NESFA Press. March 1994. ISBN 978-0915368556.
• "Some Notes Toward Two Analyses of Auctorial Method and Voice". The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha. Tor Books. 2002. ISBN 978-0312864781.
• "Remarks on Some Cliches I Have (By Definition) Known Too Well". Subterranean Magazine #4. Subterranean Press. 2006.
• Chapter 15. 2005. ISBN 978-1411622982. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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