Tobias Samuel Buckell (born January 2, 1979, in Grenada) is a Grenadian/British science fiction and fantasy writer.
From his first sold short story, "The Fish Merchant", in March 2000, he has written over a hundred stories, including novels, novellas, short stories, and collections, which have been written and translated into nineteen languages. Across his writing career, he and his work have been nominated for several awards, including the WSFA Small Press Award, Nebula Award, and Prometheus Award. He has also made The New York Times Best Seller list in 2008 for his novel, Halo: The Cole Protocol, and additionally won several awards, including the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Award and World Fantasy Award.
In addition to his authorship, he has also been a judge for the World Fantasy Award, a vice president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, an English instructor at Bluffton University, and a Creative Writing instructor for the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program.
Early life and education
Tobias S. Buckell was born in Grenada in the Caribbean, an island country in the West Indies and Caribbean Sea, where he lived on his family’s boat. Throughout his childhood, he and his family moved to live throughout the Virgin Islands (British and American between 1989 and 1995) until Hurricane Marilyn decimated his family’s boat house.
He and his family moved to Bluffton, Ohio when he was 16, where he eventually went on to attend and graduate from Bluffton University in 2000,
Though not American,
Awards and honors
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