Photo by Monika Webb
E(ugene).C. Myers is the author of Fair Coin, a young adult novel forthcoming from Pyr Books (March 2012).
He was assembled in the U.S. from Korean and German parts and raised by a single mother and a public library in Yonkers, New York, where he survived an improbable number of life-threatening experiences—most miraculously, high school—with ample scars as proof.
He graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts, which was no use at all in his subsequent job as a technical writer but looks pretty nice on the wall. After a year in software development on Wall Street, he began a career in cable television and helped deliver quality women’s programming for nine-and-a-half years. He now uses his powers for good–as a development writer for a children’s hospital.
His science fiction and fantasy short stories have been published in a number of magazines and anthologies such as Sybil’s Garage, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic, and Touched by Wonder: A Symphony of Fantastic Tales. His romantic short story featuring horny zombies, “In the Closet”, received an Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008; his nostalgic short story about horny cavemen, “My Father’s Eyes”, also got an Honorable Mention in The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 3; and he was a finalist in L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest.
photo by Mercurio D. Rivera
He attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2005 and is a member of the professional writing group Altered Fluid, which frequently performs live workshop critiques for insomniac listeners on Jim Freund’s Hour of the Wolf WBAI 99.5 FM. He currently lives in Philadelphia, where he is working on several young adult novels and a variety of short stories. In the rest of his imaginary leisure time, he edits the Clarion West alumni newsletter, The Seventh Week; blogs Star Trek Re-watch reviews with Torie Atkinson at TheViewscreen.com; co-moderates the GothamLit Yahoo group; critiques manuscripts; reads constantly; lurks on the internet; plays video games; and pursues other extracurricular activities that prevent him from getting enough sleep.
E.C. Myers was assembled in the U.S. from Korean and German parts. When he isn't writing, he reads, plays video games, watches films, sleeps as little as possible, and spends far too much time on the internet. 
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