Vera Nazarian

Past Nominations and Wins

2008

“The Duke in His Castle” by Vera Nazarian, published by Norilana Books. Nominated for Best Novella in 2008

2007

“The Story of Love” by Vera Nazarian. Nominated for Best Short Story in 2007

Vera Nazarian

Vera Nazarian is a two-time Nebula Award® Finalist and award winning artist. She immigrated to the USA as a refugee from the former USSR by way of Lebanon, Greece, and Italy, as a kid, sold her first story at 17, and has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, honorably mentioned in Year’s Best volumes, and translated into eight languages.

Vera made her novelist debut with the critically acclaimed Dreams of the Compass Rose (2002), followed by epic fantasy Lords of Rainbow (2003) about a world without color. Her novella The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass made the 2005 Locus Recommended Reading List. Her debut collection Salt of the Air contains the 2007 Nebula Award-nominated “The Story of Love.”

She is the author of the 2008 Nebula Finalist novella The Duke in His Castle, science fiction collection After the Sundial (2010), The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration (2010), and three humorous fantasy Jane Austen parodies, Mansfield Park and Mummies (2009), Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons (2010), and Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy’s Dreadful Secret (2012), all part of her Supernatural Jane Austen Series.

Recent work includes Vampires are from Venus, Werewolves are from Mars: A Comprehensive Guide to Attracting Supernatural Love (2012), the Renaissance historical epic fantasy Cobweb Bride Trilogy (2013), and the high-octane dystopian YA apocalyptic science fiction series The Atlantis Grail (2014-2017).

After many years in Los Angeles, Vera now lives in a small town in Vermont. She uses her Armenian sense of humor and her Russian sense of suffering to bake conflicted pirozhki and make art.