Alix E. Harrow

Harrow (born November 9, 1989) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award, and in 2019 she won a Hugo Award for her story "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies". She has published under the name Alix Heintzman.

Alix E. Harrow was born on November 9, 1989, in the United States and grew up in Kentucky. She enrolled at Berea College at age sixteen, where she completed a bachelor's degree in history in three years. She then went on to earn a master's degree in history from the University of Vermont. Before working as a full-time writer, Harrow was an academic historian who taught as an adjunct professor of African and African American history at Eastern Kentucky University.

Her first novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019), was received with critical acclaim and nominated for multiple awards, including the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award for best novel. A second novel, The Once and Future Witches (2020), won a British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award). A more recent novella, A Spindle Splintered (2021), was nominated for a Hugo Award for best novella.

Harrow has also written short fiction for Shimmer, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and Apex. This has produced a Hugo award winning 2018 short story called "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" (published by Apex).

Harrow lives in Virginia with her husband, Nick Stiner, and two children.

Novels

• The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019) – ISBN 978-0316421997
• The Once and Future Witches (2020) – ISBN 978-0316422048
• Starling House (2023) – ISBN 978-1250799050

Novellas

• Fractured Fables series
  • A Spindle Splintered (2021) – ISBN 978-1250765352
  • A Mirror Mended (2022) – ISBN 978-1250766649

Short fiction

• "A Whisper in the Weld" (2014)
• "The Animal Women" (2015)
• "Dustbaby" (2015)
• "The Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage" (2016)
• "Patience and Not-Forsaken" (2016)
• "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" (2018)
• "Do Not Look Back, My Lion" (2019)
• "The Sycamore and the Sybil" (2020)
• "Mr. Death" (2021)
• "The Long Way Up" (2022)