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.
Upcoming Appearances
18-Aug – Brooklyn Books & Booze
22-Aug – Paramus NJ Barnes & Noble Event
27-Aug – Orange County Barnes & Noble Multi-Author Signing
27-Aug – Worldcon Los Angeles
05-Sep – Dragoncon – Atlanta
16-Sep – East Asia Society NYC – Interviewing Ken Liu
19-Sep – Industry City Book Fair, Brooklyn NY
02-Oct – Capclave, Rockville MD
30-Oct – Derpycon, New Brunswick NJ
Media Kit
50-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). His short stories and translations have appeared in Analog, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Nature, Reactor, 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 Award, and was a World Fantasy Award finalist and a three-time finalist for each the Canopus and BSFA Awards. For a brief, glorious moment one of his short stories was in development as a live action TV series.
His website is http://www.alexshvartsman.com.
200-word bio
Alex Shvartsman (Brooklyn, NY) 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 is the author of The Best of All Possible Planets (2026), Kakistocracy (2023), The Middling Affliction (2022), and Eridani’s Crown (2019). 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, and was a World Fantasy Award finalist and a three-time finalist for each the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction and the BSFA Award. For a brief, glorious moment one of his stories was in development as a live action TV series.
Alex has edited nearly twenty 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 the Narrative Director for Card Advantage Games, working on the Reclusion video game.
His website is http://www.alexshvartsman.com.
Alex Shvartsman's Speculative Fiction 