Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Infobox Writer
name = Patrick Nielsen Hayden


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caption = PNH in Oct 2006
birthdate = birth date and age|1959|1|2
birthplace = Lansing, Michigan
occupation = Editor
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genre = non-fiction (writer);
science fiction, fantasy (editor)
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website = http://www.nielsenhayden.com

Patrick James Nielsen Hayden (born Patrick James Hayden January 2, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan), often abbreviated as PNH, is an American science fiction editor, fan, fanzine publisher, essayist, reviewer, anthologist, teacher and blogger. He is a World Fantasy Award and Hugo Award winner (with nine nominations for the latter award), and is a Senior Editor and the Manager of Science Fiction at Tor Books. He changed his last name to "Nielsen Hayden" on his marriage to Teresa Nielsen (now Teresa Nielsen Hayden) in 1979.

Career

Before moving to the New York area in the 1980s to break into publishing, he previously lived in Seattle, where he did some of his most productive fanzine publishing. Like Damon Knight, Frederik Pohl, Terry Carr, and David G. Hartwell, he was active in science fiction fandom before he entered professional publishing.

After moving to New York, he worked at Literary Guild as an editorial assistant, then at Chelsea House as an associate editor. He joined Tor Books in the mid-1980s as an assistant and has worked there ever since. He is also a writer, teacher, and musician. He plays guitar and sings on occasion for the New York rock band Whisperado. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

He has published a number of essays and reviews. He has contributed to a number of books and magazines, including "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" (2nd edition, 1993) and "".

He is one of the regular instructors at Viable Paradise, a science fiction writing workshop held on Martha's Vineyard, and has also taught at both U.S. Clarion Workshops.

He used to be active on the Usenet groups rec.arts.sf.* in the 1990s. Since July 2000 he wrote a blog "Electrolite" until it was incorporated into his wife's blog "Making Light" in May 2005, where he now writes along with her, with Viable Paradise co-teacher, SF writer James D. Macdonald and SF fan Avram Grumer. He supports liberal issues, is critical of George W. Bush's administration and the Iraq War, and has repeatedly criticised Wikipedia's model of operation: "I've joked that Wikipedia's tagline ought to be 'The online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, so long as they're willing to devote hundreds of hours of energy to fighting people with autistically long attention spans.'" [ [http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/2007/07/02/fred_saberhagen_is_dead_but_no.html#comment-535 Comment] at John Scalzi's weblog post describing the edit war about sourcing the death date for Fred Saberhagen's entry]

Hugo awards and nominations

* 2007 winner for Hugo Award for Best Editor Long Form, also 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 nominee for Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor
* 1989 co-nominee for Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine for "The New York Review of Science Fiction"
* 1986, 1987 nominee for Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer
* 1984 co-nominee, with Teresa Nielsen Hayden, for Hugo Award for Best Fanzine for "Izzard"

Fanzine Editor, Small Press Publisher & Magazine Editor

He has worked on a number of science fiction fanzines over the years, including "Twibbet", "Thangorodrim", "Tweek", "Ecce Fanno", "Telos", "Zed", "Flash Point".

* Through their small press, Ansatz Press, Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden published Samuel R. Delany's "Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions" [cite book | url = http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?102376 | title = Wagner/Artaud: A Play of 19th and 20th Century Critical Fictions | date = 1988 | author = Samuel R. Delany ]
* From 1982 to 1987, he edited and published the fanzine "Izzard" with his wife Teresa Nielsen Hayden.isfdb name]
* From 1985 to 1989, he served on the editorial board of "The Little Magazine", a poetry magazine, along with David G. Hartwell, Samuel R. Delany, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Kathryn Cramer, and Susan Palwick.
* In 1988, he was one of the founding editors of "The New York Review of Science Fiction", for which he did the basic design still in use today. He left the magazine after several issues.

His entry in "Who's Who in SF Fandom" [cite web | url = http://www.fiawol.demon.co.uk/who/pnh.html | title = NIELSEN HAYDEN, Patrick (James) (1959- ) | work = Who's Who in SF Fandom ] has a much more detailed list of his fanzine publications.

Anthologies

* "Alternate Skiffy" (Wildside Press, 1997) with Mike Resnick (ISBN 1-880448-54-8)
* "New Skies" (Tor, 2003)
* "New Magics: An Anthology of Today's Fantasy" (Tor, 2004)
* "The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens: First Annual Collection" (Tor, 2005) with Jane Yolen

Starlight original science fiction & fantasy anthology series:
* "Starlight 1" (Tor, 1996) – won a World Fantasy Award
* "Starlight 2" (Tor, 1998)
* "Starlight 3" (Tor, 2001)

"Short Fiction"
* "Binding" in "Aladdin: Master of the Lamp", 1992, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg
* "Sincerity" in "More Whatdunits", 1993, ed. Mike Resnick
* "Return" in "Xanadu", 1993, ed. Jane Yolen (also available [http://nielsenhayden.com/return.html online] ).

References

External links

* http://NielsenHayden.com – personal website
** http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight – weblog
** http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/stop.html – archive of the old personal weblog
* [http://www.sfwa.org/bulletin/articles/pnh_ds.html Spring 2001 Interview] by Darrell Schweitzer
* [http://sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=5258 Interview from 2004/7]
* [http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=WTqGWg0AAAD6WYg_PvkFwdk659C90y3o PNH's Usenet posts] from 1992–2002 in Google Groups
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* [http://besteditorhugo.pbwiki.com/PatrickNielsenHayden List of edited books] since 2006 at Science Fiction and Fantasy Editor Wiki

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NAME= Nielsen Hayden, Patrick
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= American science fiction editor, fanzine publisher, essayist, reviewer, anthologist, and teacher.
DATE OF BIRTH= January 2, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH= Lansing, Michigan
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