Bio

Karina Sumner-Smith is a twenty-something outsider, short fiction author and novelist-in-the-making. In addition to her writing and a new day job with a downtown IT consulting firm, Karina newly launched a jewelry design company with a friend, and so finds herself with massed quantities of beads and wire, and very little free time. At present she lives in Toronto.

Short stories

2006 - 'On a Day That Has No Name', Fantasy Magazine

Jun 2006 - 'An End to All Things coming' in Children of Magic, edited by Kerrie Hughes, DAW Books

Feb 2006 - 'The Voices of the Snakes', forthcoming in Issue #2 of Fantasy Magazine

October 2004 - 'A Prayer of Salt and Sand' in Summoned to Destiny, edited by Julie E. Czerneda, Fitzhenry and Whiteside,

December 2003 - 'Marks of Ownership' in Why I Hate Aliens, edited by Marissa K. Lingen, Stone Garden Publishing

November 2003 - 'A Last Taste of Sweetness' in Issue #13 of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

November 2003 - She is Elizabeth Lynn Rhodea' in Issue #1 of Flytrap Honorable Mention, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 17
Honorable Mention, 2003 Asimov Award for Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing

August 2003 - 'Drowned Men Can't Have Kids' in Strange Horizons Honorable Mention, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 17

August 2000 - 'How to Kill the Sun' in Issue #10 of Challenging Destiny

Poems

August 2004 - 'She Tried to Teach Me Poetry' in Issue #5 of NFG

May 2003 - 'Waterside Old Age Home, Room 245' in Issue #2 of NFG

February 2000 - 'From False Worlds' in Dark Planet

May 1999 - 'Deeds in Memorial' in Issue #5 of Neverworlds

Novelette

March 2006 - 'Safe Passage' forthcoming in Mythspring, edited by Julie E. Czerneda and Genevieve Kierans, Fitzhenry and Whiteside

November 2003 - 'Loving the Bomb' in Far Sector SFFH

Honorable Mention, 2002 Asimov Award for Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing