Alex Shvartsman is a writer, translator, and anthologist from Brooklyn, NY. Over 100 of his short stories have appeared in Nature, Analog, Strange Horizons, Fireside, and many other magazines and anthologies. His translations from Russian have also appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apex, and Samovar. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction (2015 and 2017). He is the editor of the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series of humorous SF/F and Future SF magazine. His debut novel, Eridani's Crown, was published in 2019. His website is www.alexshvartsman.com.