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Jay Caselberg is an Australian author and poet transplanted to Germany by way of the UK. His work at various lengths and forms has appeared in many places around the world and been translated into several languages. From time to time, it gets shorlisted for awards. Find out more at www.caselberg.net
Jay Caselberg
Anthropos, poem, issue 55, June 2021
Get to know Jay...
Birthdate?
11 March 1958
When did you start writing?
Difficult question that. I kind of dabbled in university, but had no awareness or thoughts of what I woul or could do with it. Eventually, I stumbled across an online writers group that made me feel that I had a shot of making something of it. That was in 1996, which also became the year of my first sale and my first convention.
When and what and where did you first get published?
December 1996 Keen Science Fiction. A story called "Pesticide."
Why do you write?
Better perhaps to ask what happens if I don't write. I find myself mostly in a situation where I can't not write. If I am not creating, I feel out of sorts, unravelled, detached from what I am.
Why do you write Science Fiction and/or Fantasy?
Because it's the literature of ideas, the sandbox for those thoughts and realities that push the boundaries of what might or could be, and yet reflects back on us as we are.
Who is your favorite author? Your favorite story?
Oh, oh, oh. Too many, too little time. I'll try to pick an illustrative couple. Gene Wolfe for his mastery of language and prose. King for his simple observational narrative. James Lee Burke for his touching on the magical realist while still maintaining a story embedded in crime. One of my favourite tales is the classic "Light of Other Days" for its poignancy and the reveal.
What are you trying to say with your fiction?
A lot of my stuff comes from what I guess is a very personal place, much of it themed around separation and loss. I want to leave readers thinking, perhaps analysing themselves and life as a result. I like to disturb comfortable realities.
If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?
He dreamed.
Do you blog?
Not as such. I provide the occasional caustic commentary on some of the social media outlets. I've done a few articles and interviews on the industry, but I'm not much of a blogger. My stories and poems are the expressions of what's in my head.
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