• Source: Eugen Bacon

Eugen Bacon is an African-Australian computer scientist and author of speculative fiction.
She has won or been nominated for national and international awards, including the Philip K Dick Award, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, World Fantasy Award, British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award, Bridport Prize, Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards, British Fantasy Award, and Nommo Award for Speculative Fiction by Africans. She also writes nonfiction. She is a professional editor registered with the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd), and has been a judge in various competitions including the Aurealis Awards, Norma K Hemming Awards and Australian Shadows Awards.




Early life


She was born Eugen Matoyo in Tanzania, and she speaks English and Swahili. She lived in the UK before moving to Melbourne, Australia.




Education


Eugen Bacon has a Master of Science with distinction in distributed computer systems from the University of Greenwich, UK. 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.




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.




Bibliography






= Novels

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Serengotti. Transit Lounge Publishing. 2023.
Secondhand Daylight. Cosmic Egg Books. 2023.
Mage of Fools (2022)
Claiming T-Mo. Meerkat Press. 2019.




= Novellas

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Broken Paradise. Luna Press Publishing. 2023
Ivory's Story. NewCon Press. 2021




= Short fiction

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Collections
Hadithi & the State of Black Speculative Fiction (2020, with Milton Davis)
Black Moon: Graphic Speculative Flash Fiction 2020)
Road to Woop Woop & Other Stories (2020)
Danged Black Things (2021)
Saving Shadows (2021)
Chasing Whispers (2022)

Stories




= Anthologies (edited)

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Bacon, Eugen; Rowe, Gene (2022). Fission #2 Volume 1: Stories from the British Science Fiction Association. BSFA and HWS Press.
Bacon, Eugen; Rowe, Gene (2022). Fission #2 Volume 2: Stories from the British Science Fiction Association. BSFA and HWS Press.
Bacon, Eugen; Rowe, Gene (2023). Fission #3: Stories from the British Science Fiction Association. BSFA and HWS Press.
Bacon, Eugen; Oghenechovwe, Donald Ekpeki; Davis, Milton (2023). The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction Volume Two. Arc Manor.
Bacon, Eugen (2023). Languages of Water. MVMedia.
Bacon, Eugen (2024). Afro-Centred Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction. Bloomsbury Academic.




= Poetry

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Texture of Silence: An Illustrated Collection of Prose Poetry (2023), with Steve Simpson[7]
Saving Shadows (2021)[8]
Speculate: A Collection of Microlit (2021), with Dominique Hecq[9]
Frame of Reference (2021)
Black Moon (2020)[10]
Her Bitch Dress (2020)
It's Folking Political (2020)




= Non-fiction

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

Articles
Crafting Stories within a Story 2013
Peaches and Lemons – Peter Temple and Michael Ondaatje 2016
The Writer 2013
Hang Him When He's Not There 2016
Chewing Over the Trials of Unemployment 2011
Crossing genre - exemplars of literary speculative fiction 2017
What is AfroSF? 2018
Writing and Reading Speculative Fiction 2019
The Rise of Black Speculative Fiction 2020
Dark Fiction 2020
Southerly review 2014
Journaling - a path to exegesis in creative research 2014
Review of Angela Meyer's Captives 2015
Being Marcus 2015
Push—a prototype of displaced fiction in the YA literature debate: Breaking the circle of silence 2015
Creative practice - finding the right mentor 2015
Creative research: Mixing methods in practice-led research to explore a model of stories-within-a-story to build a novel 2017
Scholarly exegesis as a memoir 2017
The creation of a toxic utopia in David Coleman's The Shaming 2019
I went looking for AfroSF 2020
Becoming visible: The Rise of Black Speculative Fiction 2020
Review of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Birth of a Dream Weaver 2020
The Benefit of Our Humanity 2020
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi 2020
Afrofuturism: A WorldCon Recap, and Some Thoughts 2020
The New Seduction of an Old Literary Crime Classic 2020
Inhabitation-Genni and I 2020
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)
'Trends in black speculative fiction' (Fafnir)[11]
Eugen Bacon: Agents of Change (Locus Magazine)
The Westsider: Eugen Bacon on the Power of Storytelling
HWA: Black Heritage in Horror - Interview with Eugen Bacon
British Fantasy Society - Meet Eugen Bacon




= Critical studies and reviews of Bacon's work

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JayLit Interview Series with Eugen Bacon

Secondhand Daylight
Exclusive Interview. Eugen Bacon and Andrew Hook. Paulsemel.com
Publishers Weekly (2023). Secondhand Daylight.

Mage of Fools
Publishers Weekly (2022). "Mage of Fools". Publishers Weekly.

Danged Black Thing
Publishers Weekly (2023). Danged Black Thing
Augustin, Attorious Renee (December 2021). "Danged Black Thing". Foreword Reviews.
Cooney, Sam (November 2021). "Dive into the Literary Deep End". The Australian.
Teo, Jing Xuan (September 2021). "Danged Black Thing (Eugen Bacon, Transit Lounge)". Books + Publishing.

The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories
Midalia, Susan (January–February 2021). "Playing with genre : an inventive collection". Australian Book Review. 428: 45.
Publishers Weekly (2021). "The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories". Publishers Weekly.

Claiming T-Mo
NPR, Jason Heller (August 2019). "'Claiming T-Mo' Is A Confounding, Mysterious Tour De Force". NPR.




Awards and nominations






References

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• Philip K. Dick Award
• Ditmar Award results
• World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction
• 2022 in Australian literature
• Black science fiction
• British Fantasy Award
• BSFA Award for Best Artwork