Eugene Fischer is an award-winning author whose fiction has been published in such places as Asimov’s Science Fiction and The New Voices of Fantasy, translated into multiple languages, and developed for television. He’s won the Otherwise Award (formerly the James Tiptree Jr. Literary Award), placed 2nd for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and been a finalist for the Nebula Award. He studied physics at Trinity University, is a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was a Teaching-Writing Fellow and adjunct professor at the University of Iowa, where he created and taught “Writing and Reading Science Fiction,” the school’s first undergraduate creative writing course for science fiction. Since moving back to his home state, he has lectured on the rhetoric of genre for the Writers’ League of Texas, worked with the nonprofit Austin Bat Cave to create a science fiction writing summer camp for children, and taught classes through The Writing Barn for early-career SFF authors. He continues to lead fiction writing workshops at conventions and take clients for editing and critique. He lives in San Antonio, where folks he knows call him E. J.
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