Carol Emshwiller has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Pushcart Prize. She has received the Philip K. Dick and Nebula awards for her novels and short stories, which include The Start of the End of It All, The Mount, and Carmen Dog. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, The Voice Literary Supplement, and Omni. She lives in New York City and Bishop, California.

Eileen Gunn says:

Carol Emshwiller stories should come with warning labels: Do not operate heavy machinery while reading these stories. Avoid psychedelics when reading an Emshwiller story. Do not stay up all night, reading story after story by flashlight, under the covers....

When I visit, Carol leads me places I would never have gone alone: up onto an obsidian dome, across a river on a fallen tree, and over the John Muir Trail in a hailstorm. She has taken me into the High Sierra in search of a pie shop, and has made me an object of interest to the Inyo County sheriff's office. I can't say that she will subvert you in exactly the same way, but she will take you somewhere that expands your expectations, confronts your fears, and amuses you no end.