Sharyn November

November was born in New York. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College after studying poetry; at 21 she was awarded a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.[1] She has been published in several magazines.

After working as a secretary, she became an editor, starting her career at Penguin in 1990 at Puffin Books as an associate editor.[1][2] She became Senior Editor there, responsible for acquiring reprint rights, as well as Senior Editor at Viking Children's Books, responsible for editing hardcover fiction and non-fiction.[3]

She is one of the few children's book editors who works directly with teenagers; their love of speculative fiction was the seed of her founding Firebird Books, which launched in January 2002. She has been a member of the board of the United States Board on Books for Young People and the National Council of Teachers of English’s Assembly on Literature for Adolescents, as well as a member of several committees of the American Library Association.[1] She was named a 2004 and 2005 World Fantasy Award Finalist in the Professional category[1]—in 2004 for Firebird Books, in 2005 for editing. Firebirds Rising was a 2007 Finalist in the Anthology category.

In March 2016 Viking announced that November's position was to be eliminated.[2]

• Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction (editor) (2003)
• Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy (editor) (2006)
• Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction (editor) (March 2009)

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