Andy Duncan (writer)

Andy Duncan, 2008

Andy Duncan (21 September 1964) is an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer whose work frequently deals with Southern U.S. themes. He was born in Batesburg, South Carolina in 1964. He graduated from high school from W. W. Wyman King Academy then the University of South Carolina with a degree in journalism and worked for seven years at the Greensboro News & Record.

He earned a M.A. in creative writing (fiction) from North Carolina State University and a M.F.A in fiction writing from the University of Alabama. Duncan also attended Clarion West in 1994, and returned to teach there in 2005. He was a senior editor at Overdrive, a magazine for truck drivers, from 2003 to 2008. In Fall 2008 he left Overdrive and was hired as an assistant professor of English at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, MD.

His fiction has appeared in a number of venues, including Asimov's Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, SciFiction, and Escape Pod (podcast). He has won the Theodore Sturgeon Award and two World Fantasy Awards, and has been nominated for Hugo, Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award. The Night Cache was nominated in the Best Novella category for a 2010 World Fantasy Award.

Duncan currently lives with his wife Sydney in Frostburg, Maryland.

Bibliography

Collections

• Beluthahatchie and Other Stories, Golden Gryphon Press, 2000 (ISBN 0-9655901-1-9)

Edited Works

• Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (with F. Brett Cox), Tor Books, 2004 (ISBN 0-7653-0813-4)

Nonfiction

• Alabama Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Globe Pequot, 2005 (ISBN 0-7627-3088-9)

External links

• Official blog
• Duncan's personal website
• 2000 Interview at Infinity Plus
• 2001 Interview excerpt at Locus Magazine
• Andy Duncan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database