Jason Erik Lundberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and has lived in Singapore since 2007. He is the author of several books of the fantastic—including Strange Mammals (2013), The Alchemy of Happiness (2012), and Red Dot Irreal (2011)—as well as the Bo Bo and Cha Cha children's picture book series and more than a hundred short stories, articles, and book reviews. His writing has seen publication in venues such as Mānoa, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, the Raleigh News & Observer, Farrago’s Wainscot, Hot Metal Bridge, Strange Horizons, Subterranean Magazine, The Third Alternative, Electric Velocipede, and many other places.Lundberg is the fiction editor at Epigram Books, and has served as a prose mentor with Singapore's 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 Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories
, editor of Fish Eats Lion (2012), and co-editor of A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (2008) and Scattered, Covered, Smothered (2004). From 2005-2008, he facilitated an occasional podcast called Lies and Little Deaths: A Virtual Anthology.In 2013, Lundberg received a Creation Grant from Singapore's National Arts Council, in support of creating a steampunk novella titled The Diary of One Who Disappeared. His short fiction has been nominated for the SLF Fountain Award, shortlisted for the Brenda L. Smart Award for Short Fiction, and honorably mentioned twice in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror; his children’s book writing has been twice shortlisted for the SCBWI Crystal Kite Member Choice Award, and nominated for the POPULAR Readers’ Choice Award.A 2002 graduate of the prestigious Clarion Writers Workshop, Lundberg also holds a Master's degree in creative writing from North Carolina State University. He is an active member in PEN American Center, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, the National Book Critics Circle, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators; he is also a Buddhist lay practitioner in the Mahayana tradition, formally taking Refuge in 2008 and receiving his refuge name (Thubten Jangchub, which means “Enlightened Mind of the Buddha-Way”) from Venerable Thubten Chodron. He recently completed his first novel, A Fickle and Restless Weapon.
LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction
, series editor for
The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories
, editor of Fish Eats Lion (2012), and co-editor of A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (2008) and Scattered, Covered, Smothered (2004). From 2005-2008, he facilitated an occasional podcast called Lies and Little Deaths: A Virtual Anthology.In 2013, Lundberg received a Creation Grant from Singapore's National Arts Council, in support of creating a steampunk novella titled The Diary of One Who Disappeared. His short fiction has been nominated for the SLF Fountain Award, shortlisted for the Brenda L. Smart Award for Short Fiction, and honorably mentioned twice in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror; his children’s book writing has been twice shortlisted for the SCBWI Crystal Kite Member Choice Award, and nominated for the POPULAR Readers’ Choice Award.A 2002 graduate of the prestigious Clarion Writers Workshop, Lundberg also holds a Master's degree in creative writing from North Carolina State University. He is an active member in PEN American Center, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, the National Book Critics Circle, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators; he is also a Buddhist lay practitioner in the Mahayana tradition, formally taking Refuge in 2008 and receiving his refuge name (Thubten Jangchub, which means “Enlightened Mind of the Buddha-Way”) from Venerable Thubten Chodron. He recently completed his first novel, A Fickle and Restless Weapon.
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