Alicia Austin

Alicia Austin
Alicia Austin
Born	1942 (age 82–83); Providence, Kentucky, United States
Alma mater	Sacred Heart Dominican College
Partner	Jinx Beers
Awards	Hugo Award – Fan Artist; 1971 ; World Fantasy Award – Artist; 1979 ; Balrog Award – Professional Publication; 1979 Alicia Austin's Age of Dreams ;

Alicia Austin (born 1942) is an American fantasy and science fiction artist and illustrator. She works in print-making, Prismacolor, pastels and watercolors.

Early life and education

Austin was born in Providence, Kentucky. As her father was career military, she grew up in Germany and Japan, as well as the United States. She studied art and biology on an art scholarship at the Sacred Heart Dominican College in Houston, Texas, which closed in 1975.^[1] Her early influences include Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham, and N.C. Wyeth.^[2]

Career

In the beginning of her career, she illustrated for fanzines, such as Energumen, Granfalloon, Aspidistra, and Science Fiction Review. She sold every piece of work entered in the 1969 World Science Fiction Convention in St. Louis, and then began accepting professional assignments. Her first two assignments were the first two Universe anthologies, which were edited by Terry Carr. She then became a regular artist for Vertex magazine.^[2] Austin has illustrated books by Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, Andre Norton, Harold Lamb, Poul Anderson, Lewis Shiner, and Ursula K. Le Guin. A collection of her work, Alicia Austin's Age of Dreams, was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1978.

Personal life

She was partners with Jinx Beers, a lesbian activist, until her death in 2018.^[3] She lives in Los Angeles, California.^[4]

Awards

Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist (1971)^[5]
World Fantasy Award - Artist (1979)^[6]
Balrog Award - Best Professional Publication (1979)^[7]
Inkpot Award (1991)^[8]
Chesley Awards nomination (1989) (1993) ^[9]

Bibliography

New Worlds of Fantasy#3 (1971)
Universe 1 (1971)
The Mask of Circe (1971)
Universe 2 (1972)
Echoes from an Iron Harp (1972)
A Witch Shall be Born (1975)
Black God's Shadow (1977)
Alicia Austin's Age of Dreams (1978)
The Demon of Scattery (1979)
Destinies (1979)
Destinies (1979)
The Last Castle (1980)
Voorloper (1980)
The Illustrated Night Before Christmas (1980)
Destinies (1980)
Destinies (1980)
Dragons of Light (1980)
The Magic May Return (1981)
Scarlet Dream (1981)
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1981)
Nirwana (1981)
Durandal (1981)
A Christmas Carol (1981)
Asimov's Science Fiction (1981)
Asimov's Science Fiction (1981)
On St. Hubert's Thing (1982)
The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune (1982)
Amazing Stories (1982)
The Sea of the Ravens (1983)
Night's Master (1985)
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine (1988–2000)
Bridging the Galaxies (1993)
Cat's Paw (2007)

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References

^ Boykin, O.P., Sister Antoinette (2010-06-12). "Dominican College". tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
^ ^a ^b "Alicia Austin - Biography". www.aliciaaustin.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
^ McHugh, Kathleen A; Johnson-Grau, Brenda; Sher, Ben Raphael, eds. (December 2014). Making Invisible Histories Visible (The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives). The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives and The Regents of the University of California.
^ "Courtly Lives - Alicia Austin".
^ "1971 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. Archived from the original on 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
^ "sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 1979". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
^ "1979 Balrog Award". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
^ Inkpot Award
^ "Sfadb : Alicia Austin Awards".
^ "Alicia Austin - Bibliography". www.aliciaaustin.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.