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Bio (90 words)

Stephen Kotowych is a World Fantasy Award finalist and two-time winner of Canada’s Aurora Award. His stories have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and have been translated into a dozen languages. He is also the series editor and publisher of the Aurora Award-winning Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction series. Now a freelance writer and editor, Stephen previously worked for over 15 years in the Canadian publishing industry.

Awards and Nominations

Winner: The Aurora Award for Best Related Work for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two, 2025

Winner: The Aurora Award for Best Related Work for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One, 2024

Finalist: The World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One, 2024

Finalist: The Aurora Award for Best Related Work for GAME ON! (co-edited with Tony Pi), 2024

Finalist: The Aurora Award for Best Short Fiction for “Super Frenemies,” 2016

Winner: Premi Ictineu (the Ictineu Award) for Best Story in Translation (Catalan) for “Saturn en sol menor,” 2015

Finalist: The Aurora Award for Best Short Fiction for “Saturn in G Minor,” 2008

Winner: The Writers of the Future Grand Prize (Golden Pen), for “Saturn in G Minor,” 2007

Author Photo & Book Covers 

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