Jason Fischer

Jason Fischer is a speculative fiction writer from South Australia. He is predominantly recognised as a writer in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres.

Works Fischer's stories have appeared in a number of publications including Beneath Ceaseless Skies, On Spec, Review of Australian Fiction, Aurealis and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. His stories have been included in many year's best anthologies, particularly in The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, which ran for years in the early 2010s; the books were edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene. Titles included "The School Bus", "Hunting Rufus", and "Pigroot Flat". Also, "For Want of a Jesusman" was reprinted in The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 5, edited by Bill Congreve.

His zombie apocalypse novel Quiver was published in 2012 by Black House Comics, and his first short story collection Everything Is a Graveyard was published by Ticonderoga Publications in 2013.

Awards Fischer won the inaugural 2015 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella, and was 1st Place Winner for Writers of the Future, 2nd Quarter 2009. He has been nominated for the Ditmar Award several times.