Greg van Eekhout is a science fiction

Science fiction

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 and fantasy

Fantasy

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 writer. He grew up in Los Angeles

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 and attended UCLA, where he received a Bachelor's in English

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. He earned a Master's in Educational Media and Computers at Arizona State, and worked for a time at ASU designing multimedia

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. He currently lives in San Diego, California

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.

He attended the writing workshop Viable Paradise

Viable Paradise

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 in 1999. His first professionally published story, "Wolves Till the World Goes Down," (2001) appeared in the anthology Starlight 3

Starlight (anthology series)

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and was later reprinted in Fantasy: The Best of 2001. His story "In the Late December" (online) (2003) was nominated for Nebula Award

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 for Best Short Story

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. His work has also appeared in a number of places, including Asimov's Science Fiction

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, Realms of Fantasy

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, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons

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.

His first novel, Norse Code

Norse Code

Norse Code is the first novel by science fiction and fantasy author Greg van Eekhout. It was published by the Bantam Spectra imprint of Bantam Books in May 2009....

, was published by Bantam Books

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 in May 2009.

His second novel, a middle-grade fantasy titled Kid Vs. Squid, was released by Bloomsbury Children's USA on May 11, 2010.

Boy at the End of the World, also a middle-grade fantasy, was released in June 2011 by Bloomsbury Children's USA.

His parents are of Indo (Dutch

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-Indonesian

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) extraction. His last name is pronounced with the "emphasis on the EEK. The HOUT part rhymes with OUT, as in, 'Hey, I'm going OUT for some guacamole.'" The English translation of "Van Eekhout" is "Of Oakwood".

External links

• Writing and Snacks, the author's official site. Includes his blog, bibliography, and links to some of his stories online.