Theodora Goss is a Hungarian American writer of fantasy short stories. Her stories have been nominated for major awards, including the 2007 Nebula Award for "Pip and the Fairies," and the 2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction for "The Wings of Meister Wilhelm." She won the 2004 Rhysling Award for Best Long Poem for "Octavia is Lost in the Hall of Masks." Her collection In the Forest of Forgetting was published in 2006 by Prime Books. In 2008, her story "The Singing of Mount Abora" won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. The story was originally published in the spelling-bee inspired anthology Logorrhea. In October 2011, she completed her Ph.D. in English with a dissertation "The Monster in the Mirror: Late Victorian Gothic and Anthropology," while teaching full-time at Boston University. 

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