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Sonya Taaffe is a Massachusetts-based author of short fiction and poetry. She grew up in Arlington and Lexington, MA and graduated from Brandeis University in 2003 where she received a BA and MA in Classical Studies. She also received an MA in Classical Studies from Yale University in 2008. Taaffe was first published in 2001, with "Shade and Shadow" in ''Not One of Us'', "Turn of the Century, Jack-in-the-Green" in ''Mythic Delirium'', and "Constellations, Conjunctions" in ''Maelstrom Speculative Fiction''.〔(30 November 2004) (A Conversation with Sonya Taaffe ), Matthew Cheney, ''The Mumpsimus'' accessdate=February 2, 2011〕 Taaffe often writes for the small press magazine Not One of Us, for whose website she is the contributing editor.〔(April 2005) (Interview with Sonya Taaffe ). Geoffrey H. Goodwin, ''Bookslut''. Accessdate=February 3, 2011〕 She is also the poetry editor of Strange Horizons. Taaffe proposed the name Vanth for the moon of dwarf planet Orcus to its discoverer Mike Brown, which was approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). ==Influences== Among her influences, Taaffe highlights Angela Carter for impressing her with "language that voluptuous, overblown, and precise all at the same time." She also lists Harlan Ellison, Theodore Sturgeon, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tanith Lee, Patricia McKillip, Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones, Jane Yolen, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Kathe Koja, and Peter Beagle.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sonya Taaffe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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