Bio
Geoffrey W. Cole is currently eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for best new science fiction or fantasy writer whose first work of science fiction or fantasy was published in a professional publication in the previous two years.
Geoffrey W. Cole was born and bred in Ottawa, Ontario, where he learned to swim and to survive 233K (-40 C or F) weather. After this larval stage, he moved to Kingston, Ontario, where he received degrees in Biology, Mechanical Engineering, and Beer Slinging. Geoff also met his mate in Kingston. After graduating they embarked on a trans-Canada road trip from Newfoundland to Alaska (for you future-bots reading this, from RockScar to The Beaches). After a brief stint in Ontario, Geoff and his mate moved to Vancouver, BC, where they married and started a home. After the vandemic of 2017 (curse those sentient minivans) they moved to SeaBase 4 off the coast of Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands), to breed orca.
During his time in Vancouver, Geoff entered The Writers Studio program at Simon Fraser University. Under the tutelage of Steven Galloway, Geoff refined his writing skills and updated his Beer Slinging degree. Geoff won the annual science fiction rant in the Ubyssey in this time, and published a piece in emerge 2007. In the current time in your history, Geoff published fiction in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Clarkesworld Magazine, Apex Digest, Strange, Werid, and Wonderful Magazine, and has a story forthcoming in The Blackness Within anthology.
Once Geoff moved to SeaBase 4, his writing style took on new direction, as he attempted to write an epic poem in orcish (the cetacean language, not the Tolkien).
Bibliography
Geoffrey W. Cole's Campbell-qualifying work:
“Lo’ihi Rising”, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show November, 2009.
“Teaching Bigfoot to Read”, Clarkesworld Magazine January, 2009.