Foz Meadows

Foz Meadows
Foz Meadows
	Foz Meadows at the 2026 San Diego Writers Festival
Born	Australia
Occupation	Writer
	Writing career
Pen name	Foz Meadows
Genres	Urban fantasy, epic fantasy
Website	fozmeadows.wordpress.com

Foz Meadows is an Australian fantasy novelist, blogger and poet.

Work

An essayist, blogger and reviewer, Meadows has written for The Mary Sue, Apex Magazine, Black Gate, The Huffington Post, A Dribble of Ink, Strange Horizons and Tor.com. Meadows is a novelist working in science fiction and fantasy. Their novels, blog writing, and other essays have been nominated for significant genre awards such as the Hugo Award and the Ditmar Award.

Personal life

Raised on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Meadows has lived across Australia, including Melbourne and Sydney, and the UK, including Bristol and Aberdeen. Meadows is married to philosophy lecturer Toby Meadows. They have one son, born while living in the UK, and they now live in Brisbane. Meadows is bisexual, and in 2015, they came out as genderqueer.

Awards

2014, 2017 & 2018 Nomination for Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer
2014 & 2016 Nomination for Ditmar Award for Best Fan Writer
2017 Ditmar Award winner for Best Fan Writer
2017 Bisexual Book Awards Finalist for An Accident of Stars
2018 Norma K Hemming Award (Short Fiction) Winner for "Coral Bones"
2019 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

Bibliography

Poetry

Conversation – Cordite Poetry Review no. 27, March 2008
Silence – Goblin Fruit, Summer 2012
Scales of Time – Phantazein, edited by Tehani Wessely, FableCroft Publishing, October 2014

Novels

Solace & Grief (The Rare: Book 1) - Ford Street Publishing, March 2010
The Key to Starveldt (The Rare: Book 2) - Ford Street Publishing, October 2011
An Accident of Stars (Book 1 of the Manifold Worlds), Angry Robot, August 2016
A Tyranny of Queens (Book 2 of the Manifold Worlds series), Angry Robot, May 2017
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance, Tor, July 2022
All the Hidden Paths, Tor, December 2023

Stories/novellas

"Needs Must" – Sincere Forms of Flattery, edited by Olivia Hambrett and Sandi Sieger, O+S Publishing, June 2013
"Ten Days Grace" – Apex Magazine: Issue 63, edited by Sigrid Ellis, 4 August 2014
"Bright Moon" – Cranky Ladies of History, edited by Tehani Wessely and Tansy Rayner Roberts, FableCroft Publishing, March 2015
"Coral Bones" – Monstrous Little Voices, Rebellion Publishing, March 2016
"Letters Sweet as Honey" - The Fantasist Magazine: Issue 3, edited by Will Waller and Evan Adams, June 2017
"Mnemosyne" - The Fantasist Magazine: Issue 3, edited by Will Waller and Evan Adams, June 2017
"The Song of Savi" - The Fantasist Magazine: Issue 3, edited by Will Waller and Evan Adams, June 2017
"Curiosity" - Holdfast Anthology Issues 5–8, edited by Laurel Sills and Lucy Smee, July 2017
"Finding Echoes" - Neon Hemlock, January 2024

References

Joseph M. Reagle (24 April 2015). Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web. MIT Press. pp. 208–. ISBN 978-0-262-02893-6.

↑ Cornah, Joel (7 July 2017). "Foz Meadows - Writers of Fantasy Interview - Sci-fi and Fantasy Network". Sci-fi and Fantasy Network. Archived from the original on 12 February 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
↑ "Foz Meadows".
↑ "Foz Meadows".
↑ "Toby Meadows". Archived from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
↑ "Author interview". 2010.
1 2 "FOZ MEADOWS AND CORAL BONES: BEING GENDERQUEER". The Book Smugglers. 8 February 2016.
↑ "Biography Foz Meadows".
↑ "Unbound bio".
↑ "Announcing the 2014 Hugo Award Nominees". Tor.com. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
↑ "2017 Hugo Award Finalists Announced". Tor.com. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
↑ "2018 Hugo Award Finalists Announced". Tor.com. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
↑ "2017 Ditmar and Other Australian Awards". Locus Online. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
↑ "Bisexual Book Awards Finalists 2016". Locus Online. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
↑ "2018 Award - the Norma K Hemming Award". Norma K Hemming Award. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
↑ "Announcing the 2019 Hugo Award Winners". Tor.com. 18 August 2019.

[1] Cornah, Joel (7 July 2017). "Foz Meadows - Writers of Fantasy Interview - Sci-fi and Fantasy Network". Sci-fi and Fantasy Network. Archived from the original on 12 February 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

[2] "Foz Meadows".

[3] "Foz Meadows".

[4] "Toby Meadows". Archived from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.

[bookreview-5] "Author interview". 2010.

[thebooksmugglers-6] 1 2 "FOZ MEADOWS AND CORAL BONES: BEING GENDERQUEER". The Book Smugglers. 8 February 2016.

[7] "Biography Foz Meadows".

[8] "Unbound bio".

[9] "Announcing the 2014 Hugo Award Nominees". Tor.com. Retrieved 8 September 2018.

[10] "2017 Hugo Award Finalists Announced". Tor.com. Retrieved 8 September 2018.

[11] "2018 Hugo Award Finalists Announced". Tor.com. Retrieved 8 September 2018.

[12] "2017 Ditmar and Other Australian Awards". Locus Online. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

[13] "Bisexual Book Awards Finalists 2016". Locus Online. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

[14] "2018 Award - the Norma K Hemming Award". Norma K Hemming Award. Retrieved 5 August 2018.

[15] "Announcing the 2019 Hugo Award Winners". Tor.com. 18 August 2019.

Authority control databases
International	VIAF WorldCat
National	United States Poland Catalonia
People	Trove LibraryThing
Other	Open Library Yale LUX