Outer Alliance Spotlight #14: Steven Piziks December 18, 2009
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , add a commentWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #14. Each Friday the Spotlight features an ally who writes, reviews, publishes, or is in some other way involved with LGBTQI speculative fiction. Our guest this week is author Steven Piziks.
Steven is a Michigan native, who currently lives in Ypsilanti. He wrote his first SF story at the age of nine, and made his first professional writing sale (an article about raising rabbits) to Mother Earth News at the age of 13. His professional fiction writing career started in 1992 when Marion Zimmer Bradley accepted his story, “Hoard” for Sword and Sorceress IX. He has since written a variety of short stories and novels under his own name, and as Steven Harper.
All four of his Silent Empire novels (written under the name Steven Harper) were finalists for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award. They are currently available in a variety of e-book formats at Book View Cafe, where Steven also guest blogs each Monday. His most recent story, “The Soul Jar” (written as Steven Harper) appears in the Book View Cafe original anthology, The Shadow Conspiracy.
When he isn’t writing, Steven enjoys playing both the folk harp, and City of Heroes (but he can quit any time he wants). One of his children is autistic, so he also supports the work of The Judson Center. Steven keeps a personal blog at spiziks.livejournal.com.