Tom Crosshill's fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award, and has appeared in venues such as Intergalactic Medicine Show, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Lightspeed. In 2009, he won the Writers of the Future contest. After many years spent in Oregon and New York, he currently lives in his native Latvia. He's a satellite member of the writers' group Altered Fluid. In the past, he has operated a nuclear reactor, translated books and worked in a zinc mine, among other things.

Today it's official -- my story "Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son" has been nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 2011. It would be difficult to exaggerate how thrilled I am. This has been a dream of mine for many, many, many years (most of my conscious life).

As I'm exhausted from exulting today, that's that for the blog post. Thanks to ...

Feb 2012 -- "Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son", from Lightspeed April 2011, has been nominated for the Nebula Award

Feb 2012 -- short story "Bearslayer and the Black Knight" sold to Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine

Dec 2011 -- Short story collection "Dubultnieki un citi stāsti" now out in Latvia (Publisher Zvaigzne ABC, translated by Ingus Josts)

Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son

Lightspeed Magazine

A boy and his dog -- against the universe. *Nebula Award Nominee for 2011*

To Be Alone Again

Dunesteef Audio Fiction

Paul Davery's mind was just hijacked. While he was out, his body murdered his best friend. Now he’s in a desperate search to discover who's responsible before the law gets him.

Sandra Plays for the Cast-iron Man

Flash Fiction Online

A woman. A piano. A cast-iron man. After the apocalypse.

Waiting for Number Five

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Isadora Four, an artificial dancer facing obsolescence, lives in a kettle with her decommisioned sisters. Can she find love, prove her worth to her creator, and avoid her sisters' fate?

To Fly a Pig in the Dorseny Sky

Flash Fiction Online

When pigs fly. . .

The Zombie of His Early Days

Flash Fiction Online

Growing up, Bobby wanted to ax zombies for a living. Real life got in the way but his dream never died.

Express to Paris by Dragon First Class

Intergalactic Medicine Show

Though Jima flies regional out of O'Hare, she has higher aspirations. Yet career prospects are dim for passenger dragons with no mechanical parts. . .