S. B. Divya

S. B. Divya is an Indian-born American engineer, editor, and author of speculative fiction.[1][2] She is also the co-editor, with Mur Lafferty, of the podcast Escape Pod.[3]

S. B. Divya
Bornabout 1976
OccupationAuthor
EducationCalifornia Institute of Technology
GenreScience fiction
Website
sbdivya.com

Writing career

Divya has been active in the speculative fiction field since 2014,[2] and has co-edited the podcast Escape Pod since 2017.[3][4][5][2]

Her short stories have appeared in various periodicals, anthologies and podcasts, including Amazon.com, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Apex Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Gamut, Lightspeed Magazine, Mothership Zeta, Nature, PodCastle, Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, and Where the Stars Rise, and been reprinted at BoingBoing!, Cast of Wonders, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Fantasy for the Throne, Future Fiction, Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Mithila Review, and Science Fiction for the Throne.[6][2][7]

Her novella, Runtime, was published by Tor.com in 2016.[8] Her debut novel, Machinehood, will be published by Simon & Schuster in March 2021.[9]

Personal life

Divya was raised in the United States, where her parents immigrated when she was young. Her given name is Divya; born S. Divya (the S stands for Srinivasan, her father's given name), she traditionally would have taken the first initial of her husband's given name as her own new first initial on marriage; instead, in a cultural compromise, she added his last name, a decision she is "still ambivalent about."[10] She has used the name S. B. Divya for her writing and Divya Breed for her editing.[2]

Divya studied science[1] in Caltech's Computation and Neural Studies department,[11] graduating with a BS in 1996.[12] She has degrees in Computational Neuroscience and Signal Processing, and worked as an electrical engineer for two decades before becoming an author.[1][13][14][7]

Her interests and hobbies include hiking, snowboarding, scuba diving, mountain biking, oil painting and reading. She has been a disc jockey and is eclectic in her musical tastes.[1]

Awards

Divya's novella Runtime was nominated for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novella.[15] Escape Pod was nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine.[2][16]

Works

Novels
  • Machinehood (forthcoming in 2021)[9]

Novellas

  • Runtime (2016)

Collections
  • Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible Situations (2019)

Short stories
  • "Strange Attractors" (2014)
  • "The Egg" (2015)
  • "Ships in the Night" (2015)
  • "Runtime" (2016)
  • "Binaries" (2016)
  • "The Boy Who Made Flowers" (2016)
  • "Gaps of Joy, and a Knot for Love" (2016)
  • "Nava" (2017)
  • "Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story" (2017)
  • "Looking Up" (2017)
  • "An Unexpected Boon" (2017)
  • "Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse" (2018)
  • "Loss of Signal" (2018)
  • "Dusty Old Things" (2019)
  • "Soft We Wake" (2019)

Nonfiction
  • "The Biggest Tent of All" (2016)

References
  1. S. B. Divya. "About Me," on sbdivya.com.
  2. S. B. Divya at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  3. Escape Pod website. "Editorial Changes 2017."
  4. Escape Pod website. "About Us."
  5. Escape Pod website. "Our Staff."
  6. S. B. Divya. "Publications. Short Stories," on sbdivya.com.
  7. "S.B. Divya". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  8. Divya, S. B. (2016-05-18). "Runtime". Tor.com. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  9. Machinehood. 2021-03-02. ISBN 978-1-9821-4806-5.
  10. S. B. Divya. "What's in a Name," on sbdivya.com, August 14, 2020.
  11. Yoachim, Caroline M. "Interview: S.B. Divya" in Uncanny Magazine, January/February 2018.
  12. Brin, David, and Breed, Divya Srinivasan. "Science Fiction or Speculative History?" in Techer; the Caltech Alumni Association Annual, 2016/17.
  13. Johnson, Andrea (2017-11-13). "Interview with Author S.B. Divya". Apex Magazine. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  14. "Press Kit". S.B. Divya. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  15. "2016". The Nebula Awards®. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  16. "2018 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 2018-03-15. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
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