Sonya Taaffe | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brandeis University (BA, MA) Yale University (MA) |
| Notable awards | Rhysling Award (2003) |
Sonya Taaffe is an American author of short fiction and poetry based out of Massachusetts. She grew up in Arlington and Lexington, Massachusetts and graduated from Brandeis University in 2003 where she received a B.A. and M.A. in Classical Studies. She also received an M.A. in Classical Studies from Yale University in 2008.
Taaffe was first published in 2001, with "Shade and Shadow" in Not One of Us, "Turn of the Century, Jack-in-the-Green" in Mythic Delirium, and "Constellations, Conjunctions" in Maelstrom Speculative Fiction.[1]
Taaffe often writes for the small press magazine Not One of Us, for whose website she is the contributing editor.[2] She served as a co-editor in the Poetry Department of Strange Horizons magazine alongside AJ Odasso and Romie Stott until 2016.
Taaffe proposed the name Vanth for the moon of dwarf planet Orcus to its discoverer, Michael E. Brown, which was approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).[3][4]