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Author Description <strong>Jason Erik Lundberg</strong> was born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and has lived in Singapore since 2007. His latest publications are the novel <em>A Fickle and Restless Weapon</em> (2020), the related novella <em>Diary of One Who Disappeared</em> (2019, recipient of a Creation Grant from the National Arts Council of Singapore), and the "greatest hits" short fiction collection <em>Most Excellent and Lamentable: Selected Stories</em> (2019).<br /><br />He is also the author of many other books for adults—including <em>Red Dot Irreal</em> (2011), <em>The Alchemy of Happiness</em> (2012), <em>Strange Mammals</em> (2013), and <em>Embracing the Strange</em> (2013); books for children—the bestselling six-book <em>Bo Bo and Cha Cha</em> picture book series (2012–2015) and <em>Carol the Coral</em> (2016); 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 <em>Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing</em>, the Raleigh <em>News & Observer</em>, <em>Farrago’s Wainscot</em>, <em>Hot Metal Bridge</em>, <em>Strange Horizons</em>, <em>Subterranean Magazine</em>, <em>The Third Alternative</em>, <em>Electric Velocipede</em>, and many other places. His work has won the POPULAR Readers’ Choice Award, has been shortlisted for the SLF Fountain Award, Brenda L. Smart Award for Short Fiction and SCBWI Crystal Kite Member Choice Award, and was honourably mentioned twice in <em>The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror</em>.<br /><br />For nearly twelve years, Lundberg was the fiction editor at Epigram Books, where he jump-started the Singaporean publisher's fiction line; many of the over 90 titles he edited there won multiple national awards, and made various year’s best lists. His authors include Boey Kim Cheng, Meihan Boey, Balli Kaur Jaswal, Amanda Lee Koe, Ng Yi-Sheng, Nuraliah Norasid, O Thiam Chin, Jeremy Tiang, Cyril Wong and Daryl Qilin Yam.<br /><br />In addition, he is the founding editor of <em>LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction</em> (2012–2018), series editor for the award-winning biennial <em>Best New Singaporean Short Stories</em> anthology series (est. 2013), editor of <em>Fish Eats Lion Redux</em> (2022) and <em>Fish Eats Lion</em> (2012), and co-editor of <em>A Field Guide to Surreal Botany</em> (2008) and <em>Scattered, Covered, Smothered</em> (2004). From 2005–2008, he facilitated an occasional podcast called <em>Lies and Little Deaths: A Virtual Anthology</em>.<br /><br />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. Furthermore, he was a 2025 Visiting Writer at the Asia Creative Writing Programme, and a 2023 International Writer-in-Residence at the Toji Cultural Foundation Residency Program in South Korea. He has served as a prose mentor with the Creative Arts Programme and Ceriph Mentorship Programme, and he currently lectures on contemporary publishing, editorial theory & practice, and creative writing at Nanyang Technological University.

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