Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of several novels and fiction collections as well as Writing Speculative Fiction. Her books Ivory's Story, Danged Black Thing, and Saving Shadows were finalists for the British Science Fiction Association Awards, and she has been nominated for, or has won awards, including the Foreword Indies Award, Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant, Otherwise Fellowship, Nommo Award, and others. Bacon's creative work has appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing, Fantasy magazine, Year's Best African Speculative Fiction, and Fantasy & Science Fiction.