{{Short description|American writer}} thumb|375x375px|Jack Skillingstead 2024, Seattle '''Jack Skillingstead''' (born October 24, 1955)<ref name=SFE/> is an American writer living in Seattle, Washington.
In 2001 Stephen King named Skillingstead a winner in King's "On Writing" contest.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.semissourian.com/story/49070.html |title=Local News: People talk 11/2/01 (11/02/01) |publisher=seMissourian.com |date=2001-11-02 |access-date=2015-07-22}}</ref> As of October 2024 Skillingstead has published forty-seven short stories in genre magazines and original anthologies. He has also published three novels and two story collections. His work has appeared in various Year's Best compilations and has been translated internationally. Skillingstead has been a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philipkdickaward.org/ |title=Philip K. Dick Award |publisher=Philip K. Dick Award |access-date=2015-07-22}}</ref> and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/sturgeon-finalists.htm |title=The Theodore Sturgeon Award Finalists |publisher=Sfcenter.ku.edu |date=2015-06-13 |access-date=2015-07-22 |archive-date=2012-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615165645/http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/sturgeon-finalists.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> On the Science Fiction Encyclopedia website, noted critic John Clute says, "Skillingstead's work so far augurs a major career."<ref>{{Cite web |title=SFE: Skillingstead, Jack |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/skillingstead_jack |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=sf-encyclopedia.com}}</ref> John Joseph Adams, editor of ''Lightspeed Magazine'' and series editor of ''Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy'' said of ''The Whole Mess and Other Stories'' that "this collection cements Jack Skillingstead as a master of the short form."<ref>{{Cite web |title=THE WHOLE MESS AND OTHER STORIES |url=http://fairwoodpress.com/store/p145/THE_WHOLE_MESS_AND_OTHER_STORIES.html |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=FAIRWOOD PRESS |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== Skillingstead was born in 1955 and has lived most of his life in and around Seattle, Washington. He is the youngest of five siblings. In 2011 he married science fiction writer Nancy Kress.<ref name=SFE/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2013/09/jack-skillingstead-ups-downs |title=Locus Online Perspectives » Jack Skillingstead: Ups & Downs |publisher=Locusmag.com |access-date=2015-07-22}}</ref> He has two children from a previous marriage.
==Bibliography== {{Expand list|date=August 2018}}
===Novels=== * ''Harbinger'' (Fairwood Press, 2009) * ''Life On The Preservation'' (Solaris Books, 2013)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.solarisbooks.com/titles/title_details/life_on_the_preservation |title=Contact Us | Rebellion Publishing |publisher=Solarisbooks.com |access-date=2015-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Russell|date=September 2013|work=Locus|page=60|last=Letson|title=Review: Life on the Preservation}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/07/life_on_the_pre.shtml |title=Strange Horizons Reviews: Life on the Preservation by Jack Skillingstead |last=Zinos-Amaro |first=Alvaro |date=July 17, 2013 |work=Strange Horizons |access-date=17 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004211152/http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2013/07/life_on_the_pre.shtml |archive-date= 4 October 2013 }}</ref> * ''The Chaos Function'' (John Joseph Adams Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019)<ref>{{isfdb title|id=2503526|title=The Chaos Function}}</ref><ref>Russell Letson, ''[https://locusmag.com/2019/07/russell-letson-reviews-the-chaos-function-by-jack-skillingstead/ ''Russell Letson Reviews The Chaos Function by Jack Skillingstead'']'', Locusmag.com. Retrieved July 8, 2019</ref>
=== Short fiction === ;Collections * Are You There and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon Press, 2009)<ref>{{cite web |title=Golden Gryphon Press - Are You There and Other Stories |url=http://www.goldengryphon.com/ayt.html |access-date=2015-07-22 |publisher=Goldengryphon.com}}</ref> *The Whole Mess and Other Stories (Fairwood Press, 2023);<ref>{{Cite web |title=THE WHOLE MESS AND OTHER STORIES |url=http://fairwoodpress.com/store/p145/THE_WHOLE_MESS_AND_OTHER_STORIES.html |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=FAIRWOOD PRESS |language=en}}</ref> '''Stories'''<ref>Short stories unless otherwise noted. </ref>
<!-- Move entries below into the table above --> * The Apprentice (Whispers From The Shattered Forum, 2003) * Hardwood (Glyph, 2003) * Dead Worlds (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2003) * Reunion (On Spec, 2004) * Rewind (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2004) * Transplant (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2004) * Scatter (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2004) * The Tree (On Spec, 2005) * Bean There (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2005) * Overlay (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2005) * Are You There (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2006) * Life on the Preservation (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2006) * Girl in the Empty Apartment (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2006) * Two (Talebones Magazine, 2007) * The Chimera Transit (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2007) * Scrawl Daddy (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2007) * Thank You, Mr. Whiskers (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2007) * Everyone Bleeds Through (Realms of Fantasy, 2007) * Strangers on a Bus (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2007) * What You Are About to See (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2008) * Double Occupancy (Polu Texni: A Magazine of Many Arts, 2008) * Cat in the Rain (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2008) * Alone with an Inconvenient Companion (Fast Forward 2, 2008) * Rescue Mission (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three, 2009) * Einstein's Theory (On Spec, 2009) * Human Day (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2009) * The Avenger of Love (Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 2009) * Here's Your Space (Are You There and Other Stories, 2009) * The Flow and Dream (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2011) * Free Dog (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2011) * Steel Lake (Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, 2011) * Arlington (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2013) * Tribute (Mission: Tomorrow. Baen Books, 2015) * Salvage opportunity (Clarkesworld Magazine, 2016) * Licorice (Now We Are Ten. Newcon Press, 2016) * The Savior Virus (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2016) * The Despoilers (Clarkesworld Magazine, 2016) * The Whole Mess (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2016) * Destination (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2017) * Mine, Yours, Ours (Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, Tor Books, 2017) * Assassins / co-written with Burt Courtier (Clarkesworld Magazine, 2017) * The Last Garden (Lightspeed Magazine, 2017) * The Sum of Her Expectations (Clarkesworld Magazine, 2017) * Straconia (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2018) * Dream Interpretation (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, 2021) * The President's Drone (The Whole Mess and Other Stories, FAIRWOOD PRESS, 2023) * The Ledgers (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2024)
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=SFE> [http://sf-encyclopedia.com/Entry/skillingstead_jack "Skillingstead, Jack"]. Revised April 2, 2015. ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (sf-encyclopedia.com). Retrieved 2015-07-20. Entry by 'JC', John Clute.</ref> }}
==External links== * {{official website |jackskillingstead.com}} * {{isfdb name|id=20997|name=Jack Skillingstead}} * {{LCAuth|n2009014560|Jack Skillingstead|2|}}
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