About

Alex Shvartsman is a writer, anthologist, translator, and game designer from Brooklyn, NY. His adventures so far have included traveling to over 30 countries, playing a card game for a living, and building a successful business.

Alex is occasionally available for freelance translation and writing projects. Reprint rights are available for most of his short stories. Please feel free to reach out.

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50-word bio

Alex Shvartsman is a writer, translator, and anthologist from Brooklyn, NY. He’s the author of The Best of All Possible Planets (2026), Kakistocracy (2023), The Middling Affliction (2022), and Eridani’s Crown (2019) novels. Over 120 of his short stories have appeared in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. His website is www.alexshvartsman.com.

100-word bio

Alex Shvartsman (Brooklyn, NY) is the author of The Best of All Possible Planets (2026), Kakistocracy (2023), The Middling Affliction (2022), and Eridani’s Crown (2019) novels. Over 150 of his stories and his translations from Russian have appeared in Analog, Asimov’s Clarkesworld, F&SF, Nature, Reactor, Strange Horizons, and several Year’s Best volumes. He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction, was a three-time finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction and a two-time finalist for the BSFA Award.

His website is http://www.alexshvartsman.com.

200-word bio

Alex Shvartsman is a writer, translator, game designer, and anthologist from Brooklyn, NY. His adventures so far have included traveling to over thirty countries, playing a card game for a living, and building a successful business.

Alex has edited over a dozen anthologies, including the long-running Unidentified Funny Objects series, as well as The Digital Aesthete, The Cackle of Cthulhu, Humanity 2.0 and many more.. He has worked on many games and is presently a Narrative Director for Card Advantage Games, working on the Reclusion video game.

His website is http://www.alexshvartsman.com.