Nationality United States Name Rick Wilber | Role Author | |
Occupation editor, short story writer, poet Genre Science fiction, fantasy Books Modern Media Writing, My Father's Game, The cold road, Magazine feature writing, To Leuchars | ||
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Rick Wilber is an American author, poet, and editor. He has published more than thirty-five short stories in magazines such as Aboriginal SF, Analog, Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Pulphouse, and SF Age; and in anthologies such as Alien Sex and Chrysalis. In addition to his short stories, he has written the novels Rum Point, The Cold Road, and Alien Morning, as well as a memoir, My Father's Game: Life, Death, Baseball, and several textbooks, including Modern Media Writing and Magazine Feature Writing.
Wilber is the editor of anthologies including Subtropical Speculations: An Anthology of Florida Science Fiction (1991) and Future Media (2011). His short story "Something Real" won the 2013 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Short Form.
He currently lives in Florida where he teaches Mass Communications at the University of South Florida.
Wilber's father was baseball player Del Wilber, which has influenced much of his writing, both fictional ("Where Garagiola Waits") and non-fictional (My Father's Game).