Jason Erik Lundberg was born in New York, grew up in North Carolina, and has lived in Singapore since 2007. He is the author and anthologist of 30 books, including A Fickle and Restless Weapon(2020), Most Excellent and Lamentable (2019), Diary of One Who Disappeared (2019), Carol the Coral(2016), Strange Mammals (2013), Embracing the Strange (2013), The Alchemy of Happiness (2012), Fish Eats Lion (2012) and Fish Eats Lion Redux (2022), Red Dot Irreal (2011), the bestselling six-book Bo Bo and Cha Cha children’s picture book series (2012–2015), and the award-winning and bestselling biennial Best New Singaporean Short Stories anthology series (est. 2013). He served as Fiction Editor at Epigram Books for nearly twelve years (where the books he edited won multiple awards, and made various year’s best lists), as well as Founding Editor of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction (2012–2018). His writing has been anthologised widely, honourably mentioned twice in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and translated into half a dozen languages. He currently lectures on contemporary publishing, editorial theory & practice, and creative writing at Nanyang Technological University.
