birth_place influences nationality birth_date period genre article_title name occupation
melbourne , australia stephen dick , michael moorcock , robert silverberg king , h p lovecraft , philip k australian 1955 1982 to present science fiction , fantasy , horror steven paulsen
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steven paulsen

steven paulsen -lrb- born 1955 -rrb- is an australian writer of science fiction , fantasy and horror fiction whose work has been published in books , magazines , journals and newspapers around the world .
he is the author of the best selling children 's book , the stray cat , which has seen publication in several foreign language editions , and his short stories have appeared in anthologies such as `` dreaming down-under '' , '' '' , `` strange fruit '' , `` fantastic worlds '' , and `` the cthulhu cycle : thirteen tentacles of terror '' .
paulsen has also written extensively about australian speculative fiction in various publications including bloodsongs , eidolon , sirius , interzone , the encyclopedia of fantasy , fantasy annual , the st james guide to horror , ghost and gothic writers , and the melbourne university press encyclopedia of australian science fiction and fantasy .
in the 1990s he conceived and edited the australian sf writer 's news , a writer 's resource magazine for australian speculative fiction writers , which was later incorporated into aurealis magazine .
he has conducted interviews with a variety of australian speculative fiction writers , and was a judge for 2000 aurealis awards .
he returned to writing in 2010 after a ten-year hiatus .
