Emma Törzs

Emma Törzs collected a World Fantasy Award for short fiction in 2019, an O. Henry Prize in 2015 and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in prose in 2020, all before publishing a novel. Ink Blood Sister Scribe, her first, appeared in 2023 and follows two estranged half-sisters left to guard a family library of books that hold real magic. It was picked for the Good Morning America Book Club, listed among NPR's best books of 2023, and took the 2024 Minnesota Book Award for genre fiction. Törzs was born on 8 January 1987 and raised in Massachusetts. She read cultural studies at Macalester College, did an MFA in fiction at Montana in Missoula, and went through the Clarion West workshop in 2017. She now teaches creative writing and fantasy fiction at Macalester and lives in Minneapolis. Her shorter work has run in Ploughshares, Uncanny Magazine and American Short Fiction.