Biography

Will Ludwigsen was technically born some thirty-odd years ago in Wilmington, Delaware, but he moved to New York so soon after his birth that he considers that the Freudian womb of his unconscious sensibilities. He has since vacillated between Florida, Northern Virginia, and Ohio.

He’s settled down now in Jacksonville, Florida, where life is uncomplicated, distractions are few, expenses are low, and friends are numerous. He lives there with fellow writer Aimee Payne, a retired racing greyhound named Graham, and a cat named Oscar.

He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Florida in 1994, and completed a Master’s in the same discipline at the University of North Florida in 2005. He’d planned to get a PhD, but he eventually discovered that he liked making things up more than finding them out and fiction seemed the more honest way to do that. To that end, he is a 2006 Clarion graduate and a student at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program in popular fiction.

Will has worked as a technical writer and training consultant for a variety of businesses and government agencies, never quite sure if that means he’s really just writing fantasy non-fiction by day and fantasy fiction by night.

His work has appeared in Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Strange Horizons, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and the second Interfictions anthology, among other places. He has a column at Horror World magazine and writes non-fiction for Fantasy Magazine.