personal
C. C. Finlay was born in 1964 in New York City but grew up in Marysville, Ohio. His childhood was divided equally between playing in the woods and reading his way through the fiction shelves of the local Carnegie library. He earned a degree in literature at Capital University, studied abroad at New College, Oxford University, and did graduate work in history at The Ohio State University.
He lives in Columbus with his wife, young adult novelist Rae Carson, and two sons, all smart readers who keep him honest.
 
professional
C.C. Finlay's first published story was "Footnotes" (Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001), a series of fictional footnotes from a history article about a future nanotechnology disaster. Since then, his short fiction has appeared frequently in magazines and anthologies. His stories have been reprinted in volumes of the Year's Best Fantasy, Year's Best Science Fiction, and Best New Horror, and have been nominated for the Huge, Nebula, Sidewise, and Sturgeon awards. His early stories were collected in Wild Things, published by Subterranean.
In 2005, his first novel, The Prodigal Troll, was published by Pyr. His Traitor to the Crown trilogy was published by Del Rey in 2009. His fiction has been translated into Chinese, Czech, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Russian.
For seven years, Finlay was the administrator for OWW, the Online Writing Workshop for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror. From 2002-2005, he led the Context Writing Workshop along with fellow Ohio writers Paul Melko and Tobias Buckell. He has also been an instructor at the Clarion Workshop (now located at San Diego State University), at the Clarion Young Authors workshop (at Michigan State University), and the Alpha Writers Workshop (at the University of Pittsburg-Greensburg).
Finlay has also served on the jury for the Phillip K. Dick Award and he co-chaired the jury for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
In 2003, Finlay founded the Blue Heaven workshop, a professional peer review retreat for genre novelists. Authors who have workshopped novels at Blue Heaven include Paolo Bacigalupi, Christopher Barzak, Tobias Buckell, Rae Carson, Deb Coates, Brenda Cooper, Daryl Gregory, Karin Lowachee Sandra McDonald, Paul Melko, Tim Pratt, Sarah Prineas, M. Rickert, Ben Rosenbaum, William Shunn, Ian Tregillis, Catherynne M. Valente, Greg van Eekhout, and others.
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