Ted Kosmatka

Ted Kosmatka is an American writer. His short stories have been reprinted in ten Year's Best anthologies, and he is co-winner of the 2010 Asimov's Readers' Choice Award.[3] His 2012 novel The Games was nominated for a Locus Award for Best First Novel.

Personal life
Kosmatka was born and raised in northwest Indiana where he worked for more than a decade in the steel industry. After moving to Seattle with his family, he worked for several years as a video game writer before returning to the Midwest.

Novels

 * The Games (2012)
 * Prophet of Bones (2013)
 * The Flicker Men (2015)

Video games

 * Dota 2 (2013)
 * Portal 2 (2011)

Short Speculative Fiction

 * "The Beast Adjoins," The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2021.
 * "The One Who Isn't" Lightspeed Magazine.  July, 2016
 * "The Stone War" F&Sf, May, 2016
 * "The Bewilderness of Lions" Asimov's.  March, 2016
 * "Chasing Ivory" Asimov's.  Jan, 2016
 * "Cry Room," Nightmare Magazine, Feb, 2013.
 * "Haplotype 1402," Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2013
 * "The Color Least Used by Nature," F&SF, Jan, 2012.
 * "Escape He Done," Cemetery Dance Magazine, 2011.
 * "In-fall" Lightspeed Magazine, December, 2010.
 * "Blood Dauber," Asimov's, a collaboration with Michael Poore, Oct/Nov 2009.
 * "Limited Penetrance, Variable Expression," The Human Genre Project, July 2009.
 * "The Ascendant," Subterranean Online, Spring 2009.
 * "Divining Light," Asimov's, 2008.
 * "The Art of Alchemy," Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2008.
 * "N-words," Seeds of Change, J.J. Adams editor, 2008.
 * "The Prophet of Flores," Asimov's, 2007.
 * "Deadnauts," Ideomancer, 2007.
 * "Doxology," City Slab, 2007.
 * "Bitterseed," Asimov's, 2006.
 * "The God Engine," Asimov's Science Fiction, Oct-Nov 2005
 * "Quicksilver," Spirits Magazine.
 * "The Extinction of Ursus Theodorus," Deep Outside

Short Literary Fiction

 * "Last Exit of Highway 94," Kindred Voices, 2006.
 * "Indiana Harbor Jones," Workers' Anthology Audio CD, 2006.
 * "Steel," Spirits Magazine.

Essays

 * "Philip K. Dick the Shaman," Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #18, Boom Studios, 2010.

Plays

 * Steel, a one act play