{{short description|American writer of science fiction (born 1961)}} {{infobox writer |name=Richard Garfinkle |birth_date={{birth year and age|1961}} |occupation=Author |nationality=American |education=Clarion West Writers Workshop |genre=Science fiction |awards=Compton Crook Award (1997) |spouse=Alessandra Kelley |children=2 |website={{url|http://www.richardgarfinkle.com/index.html}} }} '''Richard Garfinkle''' (born 1961) is an American writer of science fiction.
He is best known as the author of ''Celestial Matters'', a novel published by Tor Books, which won the Compton Crook Award in 1997.<ref name="compcrk">{{cite web |publisher=Baltimore Science Fiction Society |title=Compton Crook Award Winners |url=http://www.bsfs.org/bsfsccw.htm |accessdate=June 25, 2012}}</ref>
Garfinkle is a 1992 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and was nominated twice for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}}
He has taught at numerous writers' workshops at Windycon, an annual Chicago-area science fiction convention,{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}} and at Chicon 2000, the 58th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Chicago.<ref>[http://www.chicon.org/depts/writers.htm Chicago 2000 World Science Fiction Convention page]</ref> He's married to Alessandra Kelley and has two daughters.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.richardgarfinkle.com/links.html | title=Richard Garfinkle Science Fiction and Other Links }}</ref>
==Bibliography== * ''Celestial Matters'' (novel, Tor Books, April 1996). {{ISBN|0-312-85934-1}} * ''All of an Instant'' (novel, Tor Books, November 1999). {{ISBN|0-312-86617-8}} * "The Last Invasion of Ireland" in ''Once Upon a Galaxy'', Wil McCarthy, Martin H. Greenberg, and John Helfers, eds. (collection, Daw Books, September 2002). {{ISBN|0-7564-0091-0}} * '' Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter'' (nonfiction, with brother David Garfinkle, University of Chicago Press, November 2008). {{ISBN|0-226-28346-1}} * ''Exaltations'' (novel, Achronal Press, June 2009). {{ISBN|978-0-578-03514-7}} * ''Wayland's Principia'' (novel, Achronal Press, August 2009). {{ISBN|978-0-578-02362-5}}
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==External links== *{{isfdb name|id=Richard_Garfinkle|name=Richard Garfinkle}} *[http://www.richardgarfinkle.com/index.html Richard Garfinkle's website]
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