Eugie Foster (December 30, 1971 - September 27, 2014) is a Nebula Award winning Asian American short story writer, columnist, and editor. Her stories have been published in a number of magazines and book anthologies, including Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, and Interzone. Her collection of short stories, Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice, was published in 2009.

Life and career

Born December 30, 1971 in Urbana, Illinois, Foster lived in Atlanta, Georgia. Foster wrote "Writing for Young Readers," a monthly column for children's literature and young adult literature writers. She worked as the managing editor for both Tangent Online and The Fix, two online short fiction review magazines. She was also a director for Dragon Con and edits their onsite newsletter, the Daily Dragon. Foster passed away from respiratory failure at Emory University hospital on September 27, 2014. 

Short stories

Foster's short stories were published in a number of magazines and books, including Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Interzone, Best New Romantic Fantasy 2, and Apex Magazine. Her story "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" won the 2009 Nebula Award and was also a finalist for the Hugo and BSFA Awards.

Short fiction by Eugie Foster

Eugie Foster's short fiction appeared in the following:

Anthologies

• "All in My Mind" - Hitting the Skids in Pixeltown (2003) - Phobos Books
• "Returning My Sister's Face" - Best New Fantasy (2006) - Prime Books
• "Nothing of Me" - Aegri Somnia (2006) - Apex Digest Press
• "Souls of Living Wood" - Modern Magic: Dark Tales of Fantasy (2006) Fantasist Enterprises
• "Mistress Fortune Favors the Unlucky" - Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy (2007) Fantasist Enterprises
• "The Wizard of Eternal Watch" - Best New Romantic Fantasy 2 (2007) - Juno Books
• "Honor is a Game Mortals Play" - Heroes in Training (2007) - DAW Books
• "Year of the Fox" - So Fey: Queer Faery Fiction (2007) - Haworth Press
• "The Life and Times of Penguin" - Triangulation: Taking Flight (2008) - Parsec Ink
• "A Nose for Magic" - The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction: 13 Prize Winning Tales (2008) Llewellyn Publications
• "Princess Bufo marinus, Also Known as Amy" - Magic in the Mirrorstone (2008) - Mirrorstone Books
• "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" - Interzone, Jan./Feb. 2009. Winner of theNebula Award for Best Novelette.
• "Mortal Clay, Stone Heart" - The Dragon and the Stars (2010) - DAW Books

Collections

• Inspirations End (2005) - Scrybe Press. Contents:
  • "Inspirations End"
  • "Still My Beating Heart"
• Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice (2009) - Norilana Books. Contents:
  • "Daughter of Bótù"
  • "The Tiger Fortune Princess"
  • "A Thread of Silk"
  • "The Snow Woman’s Daughter"
  • "The Tanuki-Kettle"
  • "Honor is a Game Mortals Play"
  • "The Raven's Brocade"
  • "Shim Chung the Lotus Queen"
  • "The Tears of My Mother, the Shell of My Father"
  • "Year of the Fox"
  • "The Archer of the Sun and the Lady of the Moon"
  • "Returning My Sister’s Face"
• Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White (2011) - Contents:
  • "The Life and Times of Penguin"
  • "Running on Two Legs"
  • "Black Swan, White Swan"
  • "The Bunny of Vengeance and the Bear of Death"
  • "A Nose for Magic"
  • "The Center of the Universe"
  • "The Wizard of Eternal Watch"
  • "Mortal Clay, Stone Heart"

Magazines

• Aberrant Dreams
• Abyss & Apex
• Aeon
• Apex Digest
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
• Cicada
• Cricket
• Fantasy Magazine
• Farrago's Wainscot
• Hub
• Intergalactic Medicine Show - Orson Scott Card
• Interzone
• Jim Baen's Universe
• Leading Edge
• Murky Depths
• Paradox
• Realms of Fantasy
• Shiny
• Spider
• The Third Alternative

Podcasts

• Clonepod
• Drabblecast
• Escape Pod
• PodCastle
• Pseudopod