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Eugie Foster

Eugie Foster: Writer/Editor

About Me


I'm a science fiction, fantasy, horror, and children's lit. writer, a columnist, and an editor.
Publication highlights: Stories in Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, The 3rd Alternative, Fantasy Magazine, Cricket, Apex Digest, Paradox, Aberrant Dreams, Escape Pod and Pseudopod, Cicada, and numerous anthologies including Best New Fantasy (Wildside Press), Magic in the Mirrorstone: Tales of Fantasy (Mirrorstone Books), So Fey (Haworth Press), Heroes In Training (DAW Books), and Best New Romantic Fantasy 2 (Juno Books). My articles and and interviews have appeared in Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, the Internet Review of Science Fiction, Writing-World, and Absolute Write. I also co-authored a Psychology textbook with my advisor when I was in graduate school, published by Allyn & Bacon, and I pen a monthly column: Writing for Young Readers .
Editorial hats: Editor/Director of Dragon*Con's on-site publication, the Daily Dragon , and Managing Editor of the short fiction review 'zine, The Fix , published by TTA Press .
Misc. Details: My very fantastic agent is William Reiss of John Hawkins and Associates, Inc . I'm an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) . And I have a Master of Arts degree in Developmental Psychology. I'm also very happily married, and I have a pet skunk .
Visit my nifty website, eugiefoster.com , to see my complete bibliography and forthcoming publications. And check out my LiveJournal blog to see what I'm thinking about/writing/working on now.

My Interests

animals, books, children's literature, compassion, corsets, dancing, editing, erotica, euthanasia, fairy tales, fantasy, folklore, genre fiction, goth, horror, joss whedon, literature, modern slang, multicultural fiction, mythology, occam's razor, prose, psychology, publishing, ray bradbury, reading, science, science fiction, sfwa, shakespeare, skunks, slipstream, social psychology, sociology, speculative fiction, stuffed animals, tanith lee, urban fantasy, vampires, vegetarians, words, writing, young adult fiction, zero population growth

I'd like to meet:

Writers, editors, publishers, SF/F fans and readers

Music:

J. S. Bach, Crüxshadows, Dead Can Dance, Loreena McKennitt, Opera Babes, Pink Floyd, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Simon and Garfunkel, Evanescence

Movies:

Dangerous Beauty, The Princess Bride, The Matrix, Casablanca, Dogma, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Serenity, Dark City, Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Beauty and the Beast (Disney), La Belle et la bête (1946), Clueless, Fight Club, American Beauty, American Pie, True Lies, Soylent Green, We're No Angels (1955), Sirens, The Abyss (Director's Cut), The Usual Suspects, A Fish Called Wanda, Fierce Creatures, Forgiving the Franklins

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, House, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Wonderfalls, The Black Adder, Coupling (BBC)

Books:

Stranger in a Strange Land, Dune, Ender's Game/Speaker for the Dead, Wyrms, Candide, The Lord of the Flies, Cyrano de Bergerac, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Don't Bite the Sun/Drinking Sapphire Wine, The Silver Metal Lover, Electric Forest, Tales from the Flat Earth, Kill the Dead, Red as Blood or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer, Winnie-the-Pooh/The House on Pooh Corner, Foundation Trilogy, Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, The Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine, The Essential Ellison, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, Harry Potter, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Beauty (by Robin McKinley), Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Bullfinch's Mythology, Journey to the West, Watership Down, Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Anderson, 1984, Animal Farm, The Cat in the Hat, Le Petit Prince, Where the Wild Things Are, The Mists of Avalon, The Sandman graphic novels, Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Velveteen Rabbit, Slaughterhouse-Five, King of the Wind, The Sardonyx Net, Snow White Blood Red anthology series edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Heroes:

Veronica Franco

My Blog

Self-Indulgent Musings . . . thataway-->

My main blog is at http://eugie.livejournal.com. Catch me there.
Posted by Eugie Foster on Mon, 14 May 2007 08:35:00 PST