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Alexandra Pierce Alexandra Pierce i(8318398 works by) (a.k.a. Alex Pierce)
Gender: Female
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An editor at Twelfth Planet Press, Alexandra Pierce is also one of the podcasters for the Hugo  Award-winning Galactic Suburbia podcast. She has won Ditmar and Aurealis Awards for her podcasts work and non-fiction, and was the co-editor of both Letters to Tiptree (with Alisa Krasnostein) and Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler (with Mimi Mondal): the former won the William Atheling Award for Review or Criticism (Aurealis Awards), the Convenors’ Award for Excellence (Aurealis Awards), the Locus Award for Non-Fiction, and the British Fantasy Award for Non-Fiction

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Personal Awards

2020 finalist Hugo Award — Best Fancast with Tansy Rayner Roberts and Alisa Krasnostein, for Galactic Suburbia.
2019 finalist Hugo Award — Best Fancast with Alisa Krasnostein and Tansy Rayner Roberts, for 'Galactic Suburbia'.
2018 finalist Locus Awards — Non-fiction For 'Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler'.
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Letters to Tiptree Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2015 8815653 2015 anthology correspondence

'In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Alice Sheldon’s birth, and in recognition of the enormous influence of both Tiptree and Sheldon on the field, Twelfth Planet Press is publishing a selection of thoughtful letters written by science fiction and fantasy’s writers, editors, critics and fans to celebrate her, to recognise her work, and maybe in some cases to finish conversations set aside nearly thirty years ago.' (Publication summary)
2016 winner British Fantasy Awards — Non-Fiction
2016 winner Locus Awards — Non-fiction
2015 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Convenors' Award
2016 winner Ditmar Awards — William Atheling Jr Award
2016 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — Best Collected Work
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