Gregory Norman Bossert (born January 9, 1962) is an American writer and filmmaker. He has won the

World Fantasy Award The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention, the awards are given each year at the eponymous ann ...

and is a finalist for the Sturgeon Award. He lives in Marin County, California and works at Industrial Light & Magic.

Writing

Bossert's first sale was to ''

Asimov's Science Fiction ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy named after science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It is currently published by Penny Publications. From January 2017, the publicatio ...

'' in 2009. He attended the

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in 2010. His story "The Telling" from ''

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'' #109, November 2012, won the

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, and his story "Bloom" from ''

'', December 2013, is a finalist for the 2014

Theodore Sturgeon Award The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to the author of the best short science fiction stor ...

. Both stories also appeared on

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yearly recommended reading lists.

Film

Bossert works in the

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industry. He also creates short animated films, including the One Minute Weird Tales series for

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, and promotional videos for Abrams Books and Cheeky Frawg Books.

Awards

* ''The Telling'' (2013) (

) * "Bloom" (2014) (Finalist for the

)

Bibliography

Short fiction

''The Night Soil Salvagers'' 2020 ;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.

Notes

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bossert, Gregory 1962 births Living people 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American male writers American fantasy writers American horror writers American male short story writers American science fiction writers Asimov's Science Fiction people Novelists from Massachusetts World Fantasy Award-winning writers Writers from Boston