So you filled your hands

Elizabeth Bear, who keeps a writing/author journal and is the winner of the following:

* 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
* 2006 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Hammered/Scardown/Worldwired
* 2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for Best Short Science Fiction for "Tideline"
* 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Tideline"
* 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "Shoggoths in Bloom"
* 2009 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel for The Stratford Man (Ink and Steel and Hell and Earth)

(Not sure if you're familiar with the Hugo, but it's the award that sci/fi fantasy authors would sell their organs to get. It's the Pulitzer/Noble of the field, along with the Nebula for authors who are published in the US. If you win a Hugo or a Nebula, it's the kind of thing that will go on every biography/press release written about you for the rest of your career. It also means that you have a very good chance of having a 20, 30 or 40 year career.)

She is also famous for being one of the touchstone personae of Racefail09, and is thus somewhat of a controversial writer.