Alex Shvartsman is a writer, anthologist, translator, and game designer. His adventures so far have included traveling to over 30 countries, playing a card game for a living, and building a successful business. Since 2010, he has sold over 100 short stories to a variety of magazines and anthologies, including Nature, Analog, Strange Horizons, Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, Galaxy’s Edge, multiple Hemelein anthologies, and many others.
He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction in 2014 and was a finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction in 2015 and 2017. Alex edits Unidentified Funny Objects, an annual anthology series of humorous science fiction and fantasy short stories. He’s also the editor of The Cackle of Cthulhu, Humanity 2.0, Coffee, Dark Expanse, and Funny Science Fiction anthologies. His translations from Russian have appeared or are forthcoming in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, Samovar, Amazing Stories, and other venues.
Alex resides in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and son.
Hemelein Publications works:
- “Burying Treasure” in A Dragon and Her Girl
- “In Which Christopher Robin Visits the In-Between Places” in The Horror at Pooh Corner
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