Eugen Bacon

Eugen Bacon is a Tanzanian-Australian computer scientist and author of speculative fiction.

She has been nominated for national and international awards, including the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award,^[1] Bridport Prize,^[2] Australian Shadows Awards,^[3] Ditmar Awards ^[4] and Nommo Award for Speculative Fiction by Africans.^[5] She also writes nonfiction.^[6] She is a professional editor registered with the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd),^[7] and has been a judge in various competitions including the Aurealis Awards,^[8] Norma K Hemming Awards ^[9] and Australian Shadows Awards.^[10]

Early life[]

She was born Eugen Matoyo in Tanzania,^[11][12] and she speaks English and Swahili.^[13] She lived in the UK before moving to Melbourne, Australia.^[13][14]

Education[]

Eugen Bacon has a Master of Science with distinction in distributed computer systems from the University of Greenwich, UK.^[15] She also holds a Master of Arts in creative writing and a doctorate in writing, both from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. She worked in ICT in a service provider role before becoming a writer.^[16]

Writing[]

She has published short fiction and novels in various genres within the literary speculative fiction field, including black speculative fiction and afrofuturism. She also writes nonfiction including essays, scholarly articles, book chapters and books.^[17][18]

(SHORT STORIES)

• 'The Failing Name' published in Fantasy Magazine, 2021
• ‘Swimming with Daddy’ 2016^[19]
• ‘Snow Metal’ published in Bards and Sage Quarterly, 2018
• ‘A Maji Maji Chronicle’ 2015^[20] - also published in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Zelda Knight and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
• ‘A Good Ball’ 2019^[21]
• ‘Five-Second Button’ published in Antipodean SF, Issue 243, 2018^[22]
• ‘Diminy: Conception, Articulation & Subsequent Development’ 2015^[23]
• ‘Mahuika’ 2017^[24]
• ‘Being Marcus’ published in New Writing, Routledge, 2015.^[25]
• ‘Scars of Grief’ 2014^[26]
• ‘Ace Zone’ 2018^[27]
• ‘A Pining’2019^[28]
• ‘Wolfmother’ published in Antipodean SF, Issue 231, 2017^[29]
• ‘A Man Full of Shadows’^[30]
• ‘A Visit in Whitechapel’ published in London Centric: Tales of Future London by NewCon Press, 2020^[31]
• ‘Forgetting Toolern’ published in Meniscus, 2017 ^[32]
• ‘Rain Doesn’t Fall on One Roof’ 2020^[33]
• ‘The Widow’s Rooster’ 2018
• ‘When the Water Stops’ 2021^[34]
• ‘The Young Prince’ 2019
• ‘Honey Gone Sour’ Meniscus 2017^[35]
• ‘Jungolo’ Meniscus 2017^[36]
• ‘Swimming with Daddy’ Meniscus 2016 ^[19]
• ‘And the Stars Saw’ Meniscus 2015^[37]
• ‘The Queen’s Waltz’ Meniscus 2015^[38]
• ‘Silver Lining’ Meniscus 2014^[39]
• ‘The Trip’ Meniscus 2014^[40]
• ‘Entrepreneur’ #232, 2017^[41]
• ‘Wanderlust’ #234, 2018^[42]
• ‘Snatchers’ #235, 2018^[43]
• ‘The Skin’ #242, 2018^[44]
• ‘Surfing on Neptune’ #249, 2019^[45]
• ‘Cloned’ #250, 2019^[46]

(COLLECTIONS)

• Chasing Whispers (2022)
• Saving Shadows (2021)
• Danged Black Things (2021)^[47]
• Speculate (2021), with Dominique Hecq)^[48]
• Road to Woop Woop & Other Stories (2020)^[49]
• Black Moon: Graphic Speculative Flash Fiction 2020)^[50]
• Hadithi & the State of Black Speculative Fiction (2020, with Milton Davis)^[51]
• Dying & Other Stories (2018)
• Jagged Edge of Otherwhen, Interbac (2012, with E. Don Harpe)

(NOVELLAS & NOVELS)

• Mage of Fools (2022)^[52]
• Ivory’s Story (2020)^[53]
• Claiming T-Mo (2019)

(NONFICTION BOOKS)

• An Earnest Blackness (2022)
• Writing Speculative Fiction (2019)

(PROSE POETRY)

• Saving Shadows
• Frame of Reference (2021) ^[54]
• Her Bitch Dress (2020)^[54]
• It’s Folking Political (2020)^[55]

(ARTICLES)

• Eugen Bacon: Agents of Change (Locus Magazine)
• 'Trends in black speculative fiction' (Fafnir)[1]
• ‘World building in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi’ (Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Luna Press Publishing, 2021)^[56]
• ‘Inhabitation-Genni and I’ 2020 ^[13]
• ‘The New Seduction of an Old Literary Crime Classic’ 2020^[57]
• ‘Afrofuturism: A WorldCon Recap, and Some Thoughts’ 2020^[58]
• ‘The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi’ 2020^[59]
• ‘The Benefit of Our Humanity’ 2020^[60]
• ‘Review of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's Birth of a Dream Weaver’ 2020^[61]
• ‘Becoming visible: The Rise of Black Speculative Fiction’ 2020^[62]
• ‘I went looking for AfroSF’ 2020^[63]
• ‘The creation of a toxic utopia in David Coleman’s The Shaming’ 2019^[64]
• ‘Scholarly exegesis as a memoir’ 2017^[65]
• ‘Creative research: Mixing methods in practice-led research to explore a model of stories-within-a-story to build a novel’ 2017^[66]
• ‘Creative practice - finding the right mentor’ 2015^[67]
• ‘Push—a prototype of displaced fiction in the YA literature debate: Breaking the circle of silence’ 2015^[68]
• ‘Being Marcus’ 2015^[69]
• ‘Review of Angela Meyer’s Captives’ 2015^[70]
• ‘Journaling - a path to exegesis in creative research’ 2014^[71]
• ‘Southerly review’ 2014^[72]
• ‘Dark Fiction’ 2020^[73]
• ‘The Rise of Black Speculative Fiction’ 2020^[74]
• ‘Writing and Reading Speculative Fiction’ 2019^[75]
• ‘What is AfroSF?’ 2018^[76]
• ‘Crossing genre’ - exemplars of literary speculative fiction 2017^[77]
• ‘Chewing Over the Trials of Unemployment’ 2011^[78]
• ‘Hang Him When He’s Not There’ 2016^[79]
• ‘The Writer’ 2013^[80]
• ‘Peaches and Lemons – Peter Temple and Michael Ondaatje’ 2016^[81]
• ‘Crafting Stories within a Story’ 2013^[82]

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