Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction, poetry, and interactive fiction. He is the co-author, with James Beamon, of The Bread Must Rise, a novel-length comedy/horror/fantasy/baking game from Choice of Games. Stewart’s fiction and poetry has appeared in Asimov’s, Fantasy, Flash Fiction Online, Lightspeed, Nature and various other places. Stewart was born in England, has lived in South Carolina, Japan, and Los Angeles, and now lives with his family within the traditional homelands of the Luckiamute Band of Kalapuya in western Oregon—although if anyone asks, he’ll usually say he’s from the Internet.
Read my things!
You can read a lot of my short stories for free on my published fiction page.
Haiku and other poems also have their own page.
Finally, my interactive fiction and other games can be found on the games page.
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More About Me
In addition to my writing, I’m an academic librarian by trade. I live in Oregon with my wife, two kids, and an ever-expanding number of animals (the current count is 3 rabbits, 5 chickens, 2 dogs, 3 cats, and an indeterminate number of fish).
I was born in England, although I’ve lived in the United States since around 1990. Places I’ve lived include Coulsdon (UK), Scarborough (UK), South Carolina, 金沢市 and 豊田市 (Japan), and Long Beach and Rancho Palos Verdes (Los Angeles metro area). I’ve lived in Oregon (within the traditional homelands of the Luckiamute Band of Kalapuya) since 2013 — although if anyone asks, I’ll usually say I’m from the Internet.
Other things I’m into include Japanese language and literature (I’ve studied both, including academically, since about 1999), haiku and associated forms of poetry, open access, linguistics and language learning (Welsh, as well as Japanese), history and historiography, and nerdy academic topics in general. I also love a good graphic novel.