{{Short description|Canadian ecologist and novelist (born 1954)}} '''Nina Munteanu''' (born 1954 in Granby, Quebec) is a Canadian ecologist and novelist of science fiction and fantasy.<ref name="World Poetry Reading Series">{{cite web|last=Sawyer|first=Ariadne|title=World Poetry Reading Series|url=http://worldpoetry.ca/?p=4703|publisher=World Poetry|accessdate=6 May 2013}}</ref><ref name="Authors push science beyond the lab into fiction and fantasy">{{cite news|last=Kelly|first=Deirdre|title=Authors push science beyond the lab into fiction and fantasy|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/authors-push-science-beyond-the-lab-into-fiction-and-fantasy/article8975948/|accessdate=6 May 2013|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=25 February 2013}}</ref> In addition to nine published novels, Munteanu has written short stories, articles and non-fiction books, which have been translated into several languages throughout the world.<ref name="Nina Munteanu in Romania">{{cite web|last=Craznic|first=Oliviu|title=Nina Munteanu in Romania|url=http://fanzin.clubsf.ro/2011/09/nina-munteanu-in-romania/|publisher=Gazeta SF|accessdate=6 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122035835/http://fanzin.clubsf.ro/2011/09/nina-munteanu-in-romania/|archive-date=22 January 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Munteanu is a member of SF Canada.<ref>SF Canada</ref> She writes articles on the environment and sustainability.<ref>“Sustainable Architecture: Learning from Nature & the Magic of Symbiosis” in Viridis Developments [http://www.viridisdevelopments.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71:sustain web article]</ref>
Many of her novels and short stories examine the role and evolution of humanity in the context of nature and technology.<ref name="Alien Ecologies">{{cite web|last=Newman-Stille|first=Derek|title=Alien Ecologies|date=20 December 2012 |url=http://speculatingcanada.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/alien-ecologies/|publisher=Speculating Canada|accessdate=6 May 2013}}</ref><ref name="Science and Speculative Fiction">{{cite web|last=Newman-Stille|first=Derek|title=Science and Speculative Fiction|url=http://speculatingcanada.wordpress.com/tag/nina-munteanu/|publisher=Speculating Canada|accessdate=6 May 2013}}</ref><ref name="Interview with Nina Munteanu">{{cite web|last=Newman-Stille|first=Derek|title=Interview with Nina Munteanu|date=27 November 2012 |url=http://speculatingcanada.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/interview-with-nina-munteanu/|publisher=Speculating Canada|accessdate=6 May 2013}}</ref> She is currently an editor of European SF zine ''Europa SF''.<ref name="Europa SF: The European Science Fiction Portal">{{cite web|last=Munteanu|first=Nina|title=Europa SF|url=http://scifiportal.eu|publisher=Europa SF Portal|accessdate=6 May 2013}}</ref> Munteanu taught Environmental Education at the Summer Institute of Simon Fraser University for several years. Munteanu was a scientist with several consulting firms in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she did research and wrote reports and research papers. Munteanu lives in Toronto, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia, where she teaches writing and consults as technical writer and editor.<ref>[https://docushare.sfu.ca/dsweb/Get/Document-516432/1992%20Summer%20Krause%20.pdf Simon Fraser University Education] 452-8, 1992. SFU, Burnaby, BC.</ref><ref name="Cover to Cover #396A: Nina Munteanu">{{cite web|last=Stackpole|first=Michael|title=Dragon Page Cover to Cover|date=15 February 2010 |url=http://www.dragonpage.com/2010/02/15/cover-to-cover-396a/|publisher=The Dragon Page|accessdate=6 May 2013}}</ref><ref>School of Continuing Studies: Nina Munteanu at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada</ref>
==Awards and honours== Recognition for her work includes the ''Midwest Book Review Reader’s Choice Award'', finalist for ''Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Award'', the ''SLF Fountain Award'', and ''The Delta Optimist Reviewers Choice''.<ref name="Canada Writes">{{cite web|title=Canada Writes|url=http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/2012/10/nina-munteanu-write-from-the-inside-out.html|publisher=CBC Books|accessdate=6 May 2013}}</ref>
==Works==
===Novels=== * Collision with Paradise (Liquid Silver, 2005) * The Cypol (eXtasy Books, 2006) * The Last Summoner (Starfire World Syndicate, 2012) * A Diary in the Age of Water (Inanna Publications, 2020)
====The Icaria Trilogy==== * Gaia's Revolution, Book 1 (Dragon Moon Press, 2026) * Angel of Chaos, Book 2 (Dragon Moon Press, 2010) * Darwin's Paradox, Book 3 (Dragon Moon Press, 2007)
====The Splintered Universe Trilogy==== * Outer Diverse (Starfire World Syndicate, 2011) * Inner Diverse (Starfire World Syndicate, 2012) * Metaverse (Starfire World Syndicate, 2014)
===Collection=== * Natural Selection: a collection of short stories (Pixl Press, 2013)
===Nonfiction=== * The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now! (Starfire World Syndicate, 2009) * Manual de Scriere Creativa. Scriitorul de fictiune (Editura Paralela, 2011) * Scriitorul de Jurnal. Descoperirea vocii interioare (Editura Paralela 45, 2012) * The Journal Writer: Finding Your Voice (Pixl Press, 2013) * Water Is...(Pixl Press, 2016) * The Ecology of Story: World as Character (Pixl Press, 2019)
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==External links== *[http://www.ninamunteanu.com Official Site of Nina Munteanu] *[http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=9312 MUNTEANU, Nina. Author Bank. BC BookWorld.] *[http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Bio:Nina_Munteanu Nina Munteanu at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database] *[https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/handle/2429/884/ubc_2008_fall_fogel_krista.pdf?sequence=1 Fogel, Krista “The Self-Perceived Experience of Investigating Science with an Artistic Spirit: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of High Ability Scientists Who Also Engage in the Arts” A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment for the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, UBC, Vancouver, BC. 2008] *[http://www.observatorul.com/default.asp?action=articleviewdetail&ID=18829 Interview with Nina Munteanu] observatorul.com *[https://torontoguardian.com/2018/10/toronto-writer-nina-munteanu/ "A Day in the Life" with Toronto writer Nina Munteanu] *[https://prairiedogmag.com/sci-fi-writers-discuss-climate-catastrophe-nina-munteanu-author-of-darwins-paradox/ Sci-Fi Writers Discuss Climate Catastrophe: Nina Munteanu] *[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/authors-push-science-beyond-the-lab-into-fiction-and-fantasy/article8975948/ Authors push science beyond the lab into fiction and fantasy] *projects.thestar.com/climate-change-canada/what-you-can-do/
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