"Sound & Spirit" was an hour-long weekly series "exploring the human spirit through music and ideas." Episodes featured folk, classical, and world music, with a wide variety of special guests including Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, religious historian Elaine Pagels, and writer Neil Gaiman. īeginning in 1996, Kushner wrote, programmed and hosted the series "Sound & Spirit", produced by WGBH/PRI. In 1989 she hosted the Nakamichi International Music Series for American Public Radio (now Public Radio International), and later produced three Jewish holiday specials with APR, Festival of Liberation: the Passover Story in World Music, The Door is Open: a Jewish High Holiday Meditation, and Beyond 1492. She worked with public radio station WBGH-FM, first hosting its all-night radio program "Night Air". In 1987, Kushner relocated from New York to Boston, and began working as a presenter in radio. She has also published short stories and poetry in various anthologies, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and The Borderland Series of urban fantasy anthologies for teenage readers. Kushner's second novel, Thomas the Rhymer, won the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award in 1991. The adaptation of The Fall of the Kings won the 2014 Wilbur Award. The Swordspoint adaptation won the 2013 Audie Award for Best Audio Drama, an Earphones Award from AudioFile, and the 2013 Communicator Award: Gold Award of Excellence (Audio). All three books are considered mannerpunk novels, and take place in a nameless imaginary capital city and its raffish district of Riverside, where swordsmen-for-hire ply their trade.įrom 2011 to 2014 audiobook versions of all three novels were produced under the label of Neil Gaiman Presents. The Fall of the Kings (2002) (co-authored by Sherman) is set 40 years after Swordspoint. A sequel set 18 years after Swordspoint, called The Privilege of the Sword, was published in July 2006, with a first hardcover edition published in late August 2006 by Small Beer Press. During that period, she published her first novel, Swordspoint in 1987. Kushner's first books were five Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks.
They held a wedding in 1996 and were legally married in Boston in 2004. She lives in New York City with her wife and sometime collaborator, Delia Sherman. She attended Bryn Mawr College and graduated from Barnard College. From 1996 until 2010, she was the host of the radio program Sound & Spirit, produced by WGBH in Boston and distributed by Public Radio International. Ellen Kushner (born October 6, 1955) is an American writer of fantasy novels.
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