Jason Erik Lundberg

Contemporary Fantasy Fiction

3.7/5 (1,367 ratings)
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George Orwell, Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Carroll, Salman Rushdie, Jeff VanderMeer, Italo Calvino, Haruki Murakami, Aimee Bender, Philip K. Dick, Terri Windling, Dr Seuss
Jason Erik Lundberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and has lived in Singapore since 2007. His latest publications are his first novel , A Fickle and Restless Weapon , a related novella, Diary of One Who Disappeared , and a "greatest hits" short fiction collection, Most Excellent and Lamentable: Selected Stories .

He is also the author of many other books for adults—including Red Dot Irreal , The Alchemy of Happiness , Strange Mammals , and Embracing the Strange ; books for children—the six-book Bo Bo and Cha Cha picture book series and Carol the Coral ; and more than a hundred short stories, articles, and book reviews. His writing has been translated into half a dozen languages, and seen publication in venues such as Mānoa, the Raleigh News & Observer, Farrago’s Wainscot, Hot Metal Bridge, Strange Horizons, Subterranean Magazine, The Third Alternative, Electric Velocipede, and many other places. His work has also been shortlisted for the SLF Fountain Award, Brenda L. Smart Award for Short Fiction, SCBWI Crystal Kite Member Choice Award, and POPULAR Readers’ Choice Award; in addition, he was honourably mentioned twice in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.

For nearly twelve years, Lundberg served as Fiction Editor at Epigram Books, where he jump-started the Singaporean publisher's fiction line; many of the over 90 titles he edited there have won multiple national awards, and made various year’s best lists. He has also acted as a prose mentor with the Creative Arts Programme and Ceriph Mentorship Programme. In addition, he is the founding editor of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction , series editor for the biennial Best New Singaporean Short Stories anthology series , editor of Fish Eats Lion Redux and Fish Eats Lion , and co-editor of A Field Guide to Surreal Botany and Scattered, Covered, Smothered . From 2005–2008, he facilitated an occasional podcast called Lies and Little Deaths: A Virtual Anthology.

An active member in PEN America and a 2002 graduate of the prestigious Clarion Writers Workshop, Lundberg holds a Master's degree in creative writing from North Carolina State University, and was a 2023 International Writer-in-Residence at the Toji Cultural Foundation Residency Program in South Korea. He currently lectures in the Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Publishing programme at Nanyang Technological University.

Jason Erik Lundberg

Contemporary Fantasy Fiction

3.7/5 (1,367 ratings)
Website
Go to Website
Influences
George Orwell, Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Carroll, Salman Rushdie, Jeff VanderMeer, Italo Calvino, Haruki Murakami, Aimee Bender, Philip K. Dick, Terri Windling, Dr Seuss
Jason Erik Lundberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and has lived in Singapore since 2007. His latest publications are his first novel , A Fickle and Restless Weapon , a related novella, Diary of One Who Disappeared , and a "greatest hits" short fiction collection, Most Excellent and Lamentable: Selected Stories .

He is also the author of many other books for adults—including Red Dot Irreal , The Alchemy of Happiness , Strange Mammals , and Embracing the Strange ; books for children—the six-book Bo Bo and Cha Cha picture book series and Carol the Coral ; and more than a hundred short stories, articles, and book reviews. His writing has been translated into half a dozen languages, and seen publication in venues such as Mānoa, the Raleigh News & Observer, Farrago’s Wainscot, Hot Metal Bridge, Strange Horizons, Subterranean Magazine, The Third Alternative, Electric Velocipede, and many other places. His work has also been shortlisted for the SLF Fountain Award, Brenda L. Smart Award for Short Fiction, SCBWI Crystal Kite Member Choice Award, and POPULAR Readers’ Choice Award; in addition, he was honourably mentioned twice in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.

For nearly twelve years, Lundberg served as Fiction Editor at Epigram Books, where he jump-started the Singaporean publisher's fiction line; many of the over 90 titles he edited there have won multiple national awards, and made various year’s best lists. He has also acted as a prose mentor with the Creative Arts Programme and Ceriph Mentorship Programme. In addition, he is the founding editor of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction , series editor for the biennial Best New Singaporean Short Stories anthology series , editor of Fish Eats Lion Redux and Fish Eats Lion , and co-editor of A Field Guide to Surreal Botany and Scattered, Covered, Smothered . From 2005–2008, he facilitated an occasional podcast called Lies and Little Deaths: A Virtual Anthology.

An active member in PEN America and a 2002 graduate of the prestigious Clarion Writers Workshop, Lundberg holds a Master's degree in creative writing from North Carolina State University, and was a 2023 International Writer-in-Residence at the Toji Cultural Foundation Residency Program in South Korea. He currently lectures in the Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Publishing programme at Nanyang Technological University.

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