Who is Ted Kosmatka?
The requisite third-person biographicals:
Ted's fiction has appeared in Asimov's, F&SF and numerous Best of Year anthologies. He's been nominated for both the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards and is co-winner of the 2010 Asimov's Readers' Choice Award. He lives with his family on the north coast of the U.S., not far from the water.
Non-third-person biographicals :
Hi, I'm Ted.
I studied biology at Indiana University but left school after my father died. Over the next several years, I moved from place to place and job to job, holding down a strange mix of technical and labor positions.
Eventually, like my father and grandfather, I found steady work in the Indiana steel mills. I used the union's tuition reimbursement program to take courses at night and slowly chipped away at a degree. After graduating, I worked in various quality control laboratories for a while and eventually landed in a research lab where I used electron microscopes.
While all that was going on, I was also writing, and getting rejected, a lot. Although my job has changed many times over the years, the need to write never has.
