Mary Rosenblum is a science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 and mystery

Mystery fiction

Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...

 author. Mary Rosenblum grew up in Allison Park

Allison Park, Pennsylvania

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, "a dead little coal mining town outside Pittsburgh PA," and attended Reed College

Reed College

Reed College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus located in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon wilderness...

 in Oregon

Oregon

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, earning a biology degree. She attended the Clarion West workshop in 1988.

Her first story came out in 1990 and her first novel in 1993. Her career began, and has largely returned to, science fiction. However from 1999 to 2002 she wrote the "Gardening Mysteries" novel series under the name "Mary Freeman." Her gardening involved mystery novels as Mary Freeman are said to be significantly different from her science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 and so her two followings do not necessarily overlap.

In 1994 she won the Compton Crook Award

Compton Crook Award

The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best first novel of the year in the field of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Inc, at their annual Baltimore-area science fiction convention, Balticon, held on Memorial Day weekend in the...

 for Best First Novel for the novel The Drylands. In 2009 she won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History Short Form

Sidewise Award for Alternate History

The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were established in 1995 to recognize the best alternate history stories and novels of the year.The awards take their name from the 1934 short story "Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster, in which a strange storm causes portions of Earth to swap places with...

for her story "Sacrifice".

Mary Rosenblum is also an accomplished cheesemaker, teaching the craft at selected workshops.

Novels

• The Dry Lands (1993)
• Chimera (1993)
• The Stone Garden (1994)
• Devil's Trumpet (1999) writing as Mary Freeman
• Deadly Nightshade (1999) writing as Mary Freeman
• Bleeding Heart (2000) writing as Mary Freeman
• Garden View (2002) writing as Mary Freeman
• Water Rites (2006)
• Horizons (2007)

External links

• Mary Rosenblum's website