Bud Sparhawk

Bud Sparhawk was born in Baltimore, Maryland and now resides in Midlothian Virginia. He has a BS degree in Mathematics from the University of Maryland and an MBA in Finance from Oklahoma City University. After fifteen years in the Air Force Bud worked for a variety of private companies before retiring from the role of Vice President at Macfadden, a Federal Government contractor. Bud is a member of SIGMA, a think tank of speculative writers that advises the government on issues of national interest. For the past ten years since his retirement he was Board member and Chief Financial Officer for SFWA.

Bud started writing seriously in 1974 and made his first sale to Analog, followed quickly by another, just when he entered his second year of graduate school, and before taking a thirteen-year hiatus from writing SF.

His work is most associated with his short fiction in Analog but has been published elsewhere in various magazines and anthologies. He was a three-time finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1997, 2002, and 2005. His work has appeared in several Year’s Best SF anthologies. His first professionally published novel, titled Vixen, was released in 2008 from Cosmos Books. Since then he has professionally published two collections, and five novels, the most recent of which, SCATTERED DREAMS will appear in early 2019.