Chuck McKenzie

Chuck McKenzie is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.

Biography

McKenzie was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1970. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing & Literature.^[1] During his life McKenzie has worked various jobs including a commercial artist, restaurant manager, entertainment consultant, and previously as a television actor. He now writes full time.^[1] McKenzie's first work was published in 1999 with his novel Worlds Apart. He received his first nomination in 2002 for his anthology AustrAlien Absurdities which he co-edited with Tansy Rayner Roberts.^[2] It was nominated for the 2003 Ditmar Award for best Australian collected work but lost to Cat Sparks' anthology Agog! Fantastic Fiction.^[3]

McKenzie has been nominated on six other occasions for his work in short fiction and as a fan writer.^[2]

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Novels

• Worlds Apart (1999)

Anthologies

As editor

• AustrAlien Absurdities (2002, co-edited with Tansy Rayner Roberts)

Collections

• Confessions of a Pod Person (2005)^[8]

Short fiction

• "Tools of the Trade" (2001) in AustrAlien Absurdities (ed. Chuck McKenzie & Tansy Rayner Roberts)
• "Confessions of a Pod Person" (2002) in Passing Strange (ed. Bill Congreve)
• "Catflap" (2002) in Aurealis #29, (ed. Keith Stevenson)
• "Incident at Five Mile Creek" (2002) in Agog! Fantastic Fiction (ed. Cat Sparks)
• "Boarding Pass" (2002) in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #1, (ed. Ben Payne)
• "Alien Space Nazis Must Die!" (2003) in Elsewhere (ed. Michael Barry)
• "The Mark of His Hands" (2003) in Orb Speculative Fiction #5 (ed. Sarah Endacott)
• "Predatory Instincts" (2003) in Borderlands
• "Retail Therapy" (2004) in Orb Speculative Fiction #6 (ed. Sarah Endacott)
• "Eight-Beat Bar" (2004) in Aurealis (ed. Keith Stevenson)
• "Like a Bug Underfoot" (2005) in Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (ed. Robin Pen & Robert Hood)
• "The Second-Hand Bookshop of Al Hazred" (2006) in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #24, (ed. Edwina Harvey)
• "Bad Meat" (2010) in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #44, (ed. Felicity Dowker)

Essays

• "Laugh, You Alien Scum!" (1999) in Altair #4 (ed. Andrew Collings, Jim Deed, Robert N. Stephenson)
• "The Dead Walk! ... Into a Bookstore Near You" (2009)

References

General

• "Chuck McKenzie - Summary Bibliography". ISFDB. Retrieved 2011-04-07. 

Specific