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.

Novels

 * Mage of Fools (2022)
 * Mage of Fools (2022)
 * Mage of Fools (2022)

Novellas

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

Short fiction

 * 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
 * Stories
 * Stories

Anthologies (edited)

 * Bacon, Eugen (2024). Afro-Centred Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction. Bloomsbury Academic.
 * Bacon, Eugen (2024). Afro-Centred Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction. Bloomsbury Academic.
 * Bacon, Eugen (2024). Afro-Centred Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction. Bloomsbury Academic.
 * Bacon, Eugen (2024). Afro-Centred Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction. Bloomsbury Academic.
 * Bacon, Eugen (2024). Afro-Centred Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction. Bloomsbury Academic.
 * Bacon, Eugen (2024). Afro-Centred Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction. Bloomsbury Academic.

Poetry

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

Non-fiction

 * 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)
 * 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
 * British Fantasy Society - Meet Eugen Bacon

Critical studies and reviews of Bacon's work

 * 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
 * Danged Black Thing
 * Publishers Weekly (2023). Danged Black Thing
 * The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories
 * Claiming T-Mo
 * Danged Black Thing
 * Publishers Weekly (2023). Danged Black Thing
 * The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories
 * Claiming T-Mo
 * The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories
 * Claiming T-Mo
 * The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories
 * Claiming T-Mo
 * Claiming T-Mo
 * Claiming T-Mo
 * Claiming T-Mo