Richard Garfinkle (born 1961) is an American writer of science fiction.
He is best known as the author of Celestial Matters, a novel published by Tor Books, which won the Compton Crook Award in 1997.
[1] Garfinkle is a 1992 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and was nominated twice for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
[citation needed] He has taught at numerous writers' workshops at Windycon, an annual Chicago-area science fiction convention,[citation needed] and at Chicon 2000, the 58th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Chicago.
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