biography

Longer bio:

Russell B. Farr was born in Perth, Western Australia.

In 1996 he founded [Ticonderoga Publications], publishing books by writers including Howard Waldrop, Steven Utley, Stephen Dedman, Sean Williams and Simon Brown to September 1999. He revived Ticonderoga Publications in late 2005, announcing several new titles including anthologies [Fantastic Wonder Stories] and [The Worker's Paradise], and the long-awaited collection by Simon Brown, [Troy].

In 1999 he founded the online journal [TiconderogaOnline], which has thrown off a sporadic start to become a regular quarterly publication, the latest issue being March 2007.

He has written for Computer Choice and The Narrogin Observer, and in 2003 made his first fiction sale to Vision Magazine (his second to Issue 6 of [Borderlands]). He is also the author of over 100 stories, articles, reviews and essays published in amateur publications in Australia, the United States and Norway.

From 1992–1997 he was the editor of the award-winning fanzine Piffle & Other Trivia. From 2000–2004 he edited the fanzine No Award. Russell is also an Associate Editor of Science Fiction: A review of speculative literature. In 2000 he was a Convenor of the Aurealis Awards, and an SF judge in 2002, and judged the Katherine Susannah Pritchard SF Short Story Award in 2003.

Russell lives in Northam, Western Australia.