Rick Wilber
Rick Wilber is the author of some fifty short stories, several novels, a memoir, two shortstory collections and the editor of two anthologies. He also write college textbooks.
Most recently, he is the editor of Field of Fantasies (Night Shade/Skyhorse) which
features classic reprints of stories that merge baseball and the fantastic. Authors include
Stephen King, Jack Kerouac, W.P. Kinsella, Karen Joy Fowler, Ray Bradbury, T. Coraghessan
Boyle, Ray Gonzalez, and many more.
Rick’s father played for the Red Sox, Phillies and Cardinals and was a successful minorleague manager for many years, so it is, perhaps, not surprising that Rick’s short stories and
novels often involve baseball. Recently, his series of alternate-history stories about famous
World War II baseball player and spy, Moe Berg, have been appearing in Asimov’s Science
Fiction magazine and one of those stories, “Something Real,” won the 2012 Sidewise Award for
Best Alternate History story.
Rick’s next novel, Arrival (Tor Books, forthcoming) is the first book of a planned trilogy,
and his recent anthology for Tachyon, “Future Media,” made the Best Non-Fiction Books of
2011 list from Popmatters.com.
Rick teaches journalism and creative writing at the University of South Florida.