Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author. She is a Solstice, British Fantasy, Ignyte, Locus, Foreword Indies and BSFA Award winner. She’s also a twice World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and a finalist in the Philip K. Dick Awards and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen is an Otherwise Fellow, and was announced on the honor list for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. Visit her at eugenbacon.com.K. Ibura (Kiini Ibura Salaam) (Foreword) is a writer, artist and spirit worker from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books include the short story collection Ancient, Ancient, an Otherwise Award winner. She is also the co-editor of the speculative anthology Infinite Constellations. Her Notes from the Trenches ebook series examines the writing life. See more at kibura.com.

"Eugen Bacon yet again treads into irreal Afro-Australian terrain with these dark yet playful stories populated with monsters and spirits, wizards and witches, strange beasts and feral humans. There are secrets everywhere in this betwixt world that infiltrate the characters’ lives in their most intimate and familiar aspects. Black Dingo zooms in on things being out of joint, and Bacon explores dread with wicked relish. Intimate, extimate: uncanny."

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author. She is a Solstice, British Fantasy, Ignyte, Locus, Foreword Indies and BSFA Award winner. She’s also a twice World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and a finalist in the Philip K. Dick Awards and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen is an Otherwise Fellow, and was announced on the honor list for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. Visit her at eugenbacon.com.K. Ibura (Kiini Ibura Salaam) (Foreword) is a writer, artist and spirit worker from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books include the short story collection Ancient, Ancient, an Otherwise Award winner. She is also the co-editor of the speculative anthology Infinite Constellations. Her Notes from the Trenches ebook series examines the writing life. See more at kibura.com.

"Eugen Bacon yet again treads into irreal Afro-Australian terrain with these dark yet playful stories populated with monsters and spirits, wizards and witches, strange beasts and feral humans. There are secrets everywhere in this betwixt world that infiltrate the characters’ lives in their most intimate and familiar aspects. Black Dingo zooms in on things being out of joint, and Bacon explores dread with wicked relish. Intimate, extimate: uncanny."

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author. She is a Solstice, British Fantasy, Ignyte, Locus, Foreword Indies and BSFA Award winner. She’s also a twice World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and a finalist in the Philip K. Dick Awards and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen is an Otherwise Fellow, and was announced on the honor list for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. Visit her at eugenbacon.com.K. Ibura (Kiini Ibura Salaam) (Foreword) is a writer, artist and spirit worker from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books include the short story collection Ancient, Ancient, an Otherwise Award winner. She is also the co-editor of the speculative anthology Infinite Constellations. Her Notes from the Trenches ebook series examines the writing life. See more at kibura.com.

"Eugen Bacon yet again treads into irreal Afro-Australian terrain with these dark yet playful stories populated with monsters and spirits, wizards and witches, strange beasts and feral humans. There are secrets everywhere in this betwixt world that infiltrate the characters’ lives in their most intimate and familiar aspects. Black Dingo zooms in on things being out of joint, and Bacon explores dread with wicked relish. Intimate, extimate: uncanny."