Contact Jason
Jason Sanford can be contacted at jasonsanfordsf (at sign) gmail (dot) com. He can also be found on Bluesky, Threads, Wandering Shop, Instagram, Goodreads, and on other social media platforms.
About Jason
Jason Sanford is an award-winning author and a full member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Born and raised in the American South, he currently lives in the Midwestern United States. His life's adventures include work as an archaeologist, a journalist, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He is represented by Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency.
Jason’s first novel, Plague Birds, was released in late 2021 by Apex Books. The same publisher released his short novel We Who Hunt Alexanders in 2025. Two collections of his short stories have also been released: Never Never Stories and Heaven’s Touch and Other Science Fiction Dreams.
Jason’s awards and honors include winning the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer and being a four-time finalist for the Nebula Awards (in the categories of Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Novelette and Best Short Story). He’s also been a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, the BSFA Award for Short Non-Fiction, and the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. Jason’s other awards include receiving an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award grant, a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, and winning three Interzone Readers' Polls for best story of the year.
If you’re still reading this bio, then yeah, you’re really getting into the weeds of Jason’s writing life. But if it’s diving into weeds you seek, Jason has published dozens of short stories in magazines such as Interzone (which also devoted a special issue to his fiction), Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fireside Quarterly, InterGalactic Medicine Show, Tales of the Unanticipated, and other places. Books containing his stories include multiple "year's best" story collections, the Tachyon anthology The New Voices of Science Fiction, and original anthologies such as Bless Your Mechanical Heart. His stories have been named to multiple Locus Recommended Reading Lists along with being translated into a number of languages including Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Italian and Czech.
Jason co-founded the literary journal storySouth, through which he ran the annual Million Writers Award for best online fiction. His critical essays and book reviews have been published in SF Signal, The New York Review of Science Fiction, The Pedestal Magazine and other places. He formerly wrote a regular column for the Czech SF magazine XB-1 and currently writes about the SF/F genre through his Genre Grapevine column.