Naomi Kritzer is an American speculative fiction writer and blogger. Her 2015 short story "Cat Pictures Please" was a Locus Award and Hugo Award winner and was nominated for a Nebula Award. Her novel Catfishing on CatNet won the 2020 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book.
Biography Kritzer has lived in London and Nepal. She attended Wingra School (an independent school) in Madison, Wisconsin (1978–1986); Highgate Wood Secondary School in Haringey, England (1986–1987); Madison West High School (1987–1991); and Carleton College of Northfield, Minnesota (1991–1995). As of 2020, she lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and blogs on local elections.
Career Since 1999 Kritzer has published a number of short stories and several novels, including two trilogies for Bantam Books, and her Seastead series of short stories for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her 2015 short story "Cat Pictures Please" published in Clarkesworld Magazine was a Locus Award and Hugo Award winner and was nominated for a Nebula Award.
Awards YearTitle/WorkAwardCategoryResultRef2003Fires of the FaithfulCrawford Award—Locus AwardFirst Novel2013"Liberty's Daughter"Locus AwardNovelette2014"Bits"WSFA Small Press Award—""Asimov's Reader PollShort Story2016"Cat Pictures Please"Hugo AwardShort StoryNebula AwardShort StoryLocus AwardShort StoryWSFA Small Press Award—2018Cat Pictures Please and Other StoriesLocus AwardCollection2019""Hugo AwardNovelette2020Catfishing on CatNetDragon AwardsYA NovelNebula AwardAndre Norton AwardEdgar AwardsYoung AdultLocus AwardYoung AdultLodestar Award—2021"Monster"Hugo AwardNovelette"Little Free Library"Hugo AwardShort StoryLocus AwardShort Story2022Chaos on CatNetLocus AwardYoung AdultLodestar Award—2023"The Dragon Project"WSFA Small Press Award—2024"Better Living Through Algorithms"Hugo AwardShort StoryNebula AwardShort StoryLiberty's DaughterLodestar Award—Minnesota Book AwardGenre FictionNominatedNebula AwardAndre Norton Award"The Year Without Sunshine"Eugie Award—Hugo AwardNoveletteLocus AwardNoveletteNebula AwardNoveletteTheodore Sturgeon Award— 2025 "The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea" Hugo Award Novelette
Bibliography
Novel series
Eliana's Song
Story: "Kin" (2004)
Dead Rivers
CatNet
Standalone novels
Collections
(2011)
Short fiction YearTitleShort stories unless otherwise noted.First publishedReprinted/collected1999"Faust's SASE"Comrade Grandmother and Other Stories2000"Gift of the Winter King"Gift of the Winter King and Other Stories2000"The Golem"Comrade Grandmother and Other Stories,Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2000"The Price"Gift of the Winter King and Other Stories2000"Spirit Stone"Comrade Grandmother and Other Stories2002"Comrade Grandmother"Comrade Grandmother and Other Stories,Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2002"In the Witch's Garden"Gift of the Winter King and Other Stories,Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2004"St. Ailbe's Hall"Gift of the Winter King and Other Stories2004"Kin"Gift of the Winter King and Other Stories2005"The Long Walk" (with Lyda Morehouse)Comrade Grandmother and Other Stories2007"Honest Man"Comrade Grandmother and Other Stories,Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2008"When Shlemiel Went to the Stars"Comrade Grandmother and Other Stories2009"The Good Son" Comrade Grandmother and Other Stories,Lightspeed, March 2015,Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2011"Brother Mac, You Are Healed!"2011"Magefire"2011"Masks"2011"Darknight"2011"The Manual"2011"Kitchen Magic, With Recipes"2011"Fortune"2011"Three Wishes"2011"Unreal Estate"2011"Isabella's Garden"Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2011"What Happened at Blessing Creek"Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2012"Scrap Dragon"The Year's Best Fantasy and Science Fiction: 2013 Edition,Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2013"Bits"Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2013""Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2014"Artifice"ESLI, October 2015 (Russian translation),Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2015"Cat Pictures Please"Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2015"So Much Cooking"Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2015"Cleanout" Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2015"Wind"Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories2016"Zombies in Winter"2017"Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty's Place Cafe"The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, The Long List Anthology: Volume 42017"Ace of Spades"2017"Perfection"2017"Paradox"2017"Evil Opposite"2018"Field Biology of the Wee Fairies"The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen, The Long List Anthology: Volume 52018"Prophet of Roads"The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 42018""The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 20192020""2020"Little Free Library"2020"Monster"2022""2022""2023"Better Living Through Algorithms"2023"The Year Without Sunshine"2024""The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 9
References
External links
Free stories online "The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea", Asimov's Science Fiction. Accessed 9/15/26