Bio

E.C. Myers

Photo by Monika Webb

E(ugene).C. Myers is the author of Fair Coin, a young adult science fiction novel published by Pyr.

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.

Sitting in a DeLorean

photo by Mercurio D. Rivera, time machine by Emmet Lathrop Brown, Ph.D.

He attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2005 and is a member of the professional writing group Altered Fluid. He currently lives with his wife and a doofy cat in Philadelphia. In his imaginary leisure time, he blogs Star Trek Re-watch reviews with Torie Atkinson at TheViewscreen.com; edits the Clarion West alumni newsletter, The Seventh Week; 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.

 

Interviews:

Five Authors + Five Questions at Shimmer Magazine: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Altered Fluid Group Interview at Clarkesworld Magazine

About “All the Lonely People” – Shimmer Magazine

The Writing Process – Interviewed by Catherine Schaff-Stump at Writer Tamago

FAIR COIN

The Big Idea

Civilian Reader – Interviewed by Stefan Fergus

Interviewed by Tara Dairman

Three Questions Make an Interview – Interviewed by M.K. Hobson

Interview at SFFWRTCHT by Michelle Ristuccia

Thrice Interview – Interviewed by Jessica Spotswood

Six Questions – Interviewed by Bradley Beaulieu

Apocalypsies Feature – Interviewed by Leanna Renee Hieber

The 9 Spot – Interviewed by Saundra Mitchell

The Debut Review – Interviewed by James W. Powell

The Functional Nerds – Podcast with John Anealio, Patrick Hester, and Lou Anders

Apocalypse Now – Interviewed by Elle Cosimano at The Lucky 13s

Preternatura – Interviewed by Suzanne Johnson

If You’re Just Joining Us – Podcast with Jon Armstrong

Cynsations – Interviewed by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Nine Rude Questions for E.C. Myers – Interviewed by Katherine Sparrow at Horrific Miscue Seattle

Speakeasy Thursday – Interviewed by Amie Kaufman at Pub(lishing) Crawl