Jemisin … and a bit peeved by the phenomenon of so many female authors using their initials rather than their names.ĭeck: Has living on Martha’s Vineyard had any effect on your fantasy fiction? These days, though, I’m much more excited about newer authors like V.E. Before I started writing my fantasy series, I read a lot of Guy Gavriel Kay, Charles De Lint, and some Marion Zimmer Bradley, among others. I moved on to read a pretty decent range of fantasy for grownups, but I don’t think I’ve escaped those formative influences. Lewis’s Narnia series, Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain series, and other mid-20th century children’s/YA fantasy. Smith: Growing up, my idea of fantasy was shaped by C.S. If I’d done the architecture school one round earlier I might have stuck with it, but as it was I was thoroughly burned out on school by that point.ĭeck: What led you to transition from poetry to fantasy? After graduating, I moved back to Martha’s Vineyard, did some landscaping, worked retail, traveled some more, then decided to go to divinity school.
I told people that it was an excuse to travel around the world and go to parties. I went on to Pomona College where I cobbled together a self-designed major in Ethnomusicology. We tried it again the next year, using primitive word processors, but fizzled out before reaching the end. I probably still have it somewhere but I’m afraid to dig it out. We wrote that story in longhand and passed the pile of paper back and forth each day, writing on alternate nights. Smith: I co-wrote a fantasy story with a friend of mine in our Freshman year of high school, back in the mid-1980s, and have written on and off since then.
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