Lawrence M. Schoen

Schoen was born in Chicago, Illinois, but his family moved to Southern California when he was 18 months old, and he grew up in Culver City. In 1983, he graduated with B.S. in psycholinguistics from California State University, Northridge, having designed his own major, and then moved on to Kansas State University where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in psychology. In graduate school, Schoen's research focused on cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. In August 2019, Schoen was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and began treatment. The following January, he underwent an autologous bone marrow transplant and entered a new regimen of chemotherapy. As of February 2021, he was in remission. Schoen lives in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. ==Author==

Schoen attended the 1998 session of James E. Gunn's two-week Writers' Workshop in Science Fiction on the campus of the University of Kansas. In 2010, he participated in Walter Jon Williams' two-week master class, the Taos Toolbox. He has been nominated for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, the Nebula Award for Best Novella three times, as well as receiving nominations for both the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Cóyotl Award for Best Novel. Some of his more notable works as an author include the Amazing Conroy series of science fiction stories and novels, the first of which appeared in 2001, about a space-traveling stage hypnotist and his alien companion animal (a "buffalito") that can consume anything and farts oxygen. Among these, the short story "Yesterday's Taste" and the novellas ''Barry's Tale (2012), Trial of the Century (2013), and Calendrical Regression'' (2015) have received award nominations. Schoen appeared at Book Expo America in May 2015, where he was presented as one of four authors described by Tor Books as the next generation of science fiction and fantasy, based on his novel ''Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard'', anthropomorphic SF that explores prophecy, intolerance, political betrayal, and a drug that lets one talk to the dead. From 2015 to 2018, he was part of the staff at Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show as Reprint Editor, replacing Darrell Schweitzer as the magazine's interviewer. ==Klingonist==

Schoen founded the Klingon Language Institute and has published Klingon translations of William Shakespeare's plays Hamlet (The Klingon Hamlet, ) and Much Ado About Nothing (), as well as the Epic of Gilgamesh () and the Tao Te Ching (). In the realm of Klingon nonfiction, Schoen edited and published ''The Grammarian's Desk (978-0964434530), a collection of essays written by Captain Krankor (Rich Yampell). He also served as the editor of HolQeD'' (ISSN 1061-2327), the quarterly journal of the KLI, for the entirety of its 13-year run. He was featured in Director Alexandre O. Philippe's documentary about the Klingon Language Institute, Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water (2004). In 2011, he produced a daily Klingon language podcast called DaHjaj Hol. (See Klingon Language Institute#Publications and translations.) ==Small press publisher==

Schoen is the publisher and chief editor for Paper Golem, a speculative fiction small press started in November, 2006. The first book it published was Prime Codex, an anthology of previously published stories by members of the Codex Writers Group, of which Schoen is a founding member. Paper Golem is Schoen's vehicle for "paying it forward," and focuses on two main tracks: publishing single author collections by relatively new authors (e.g., Cat Rambo in 2009, Eric James Stone in 2011), and the Alembical series, which produces anthologies of original novellas (J. Kathleen Cheney's novella "Iron Shoes", from Alembical 2, received a nomination for the Nebula Award). ==Hypnotist==

In 2013, Schoen took a page from one of his fictional creations and became certified as a hypnotherapist by the International Association of Professional Conversational Hypnotists (IAPCH), with the intention of developing materials to aid other writers grappling with problems common to their field (e.g., writer's block). ==Bibliography==

• Prime Codex (2007, with Michael Livingston) () • Alembical (2008, with Arthur Dorrance) () • Cucurbital (2008, with Arthur Dorrance) () • Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight: Stories by Cat Rambo (2009, with Michael Livingston) (ISBN) • Alembical 2 (2010, with Arthur Dorrance) () • Rejiggering the Thingamajig and Other Stories by Eric James Stone (2011, with Arthur Dorrance) () • Cucurbital 2 (2011) () • Cucurbital 3 (2012) () • The Wizard of Macatawa and Other Stories by Tom Doyle (2012) () • Alembical 3 (2014, with Arthur Dorrance) () • Cats in Space (2015) () ==Awards and nominations==

• 2007 - John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (nominee). As of 2020 now known as the "Astounding Award" • 2010 - Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) - "The Moment" • 2012 - WSFA Small Press Award (nominee) - "Yesterday's Tastes" • 2013 - Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) - "Barry's Tale" • 2015 - Cóyotl Award for Best Novel (Winner) - ''Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard'' • 2018 - Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) - ''Barry's Deal'' • 2019 - Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) - The Rule of Three • 2020 - Cóyotl Award (finalist) - Soup of the Moment ==Interviews (text)==

• Codex Blog Tour w/ Luc Reid "Marginally self-aware collections of atoms", March 01, 2011 • Codex Blog Tour w/ Nancy Fulda - March 01, 2011 • Michael A. Ventrella - March 14, 2011 • Codex Blog Tour w/ Eric James Stone - April 13, 2011 • Codex Blog Tour w/ Gray Rinehart - April 21, 2011 • Lucy Pireel "All That's Written" - September 6, 2013 • Bull Spec's "Coming to Town" Ada Brown - January 9, 2014 • Wired.com's Geek Guide to the Galaxy "How the Klingon and Dothraki Languages Conquered Hollywood" October 4, 2014 • Allium Online, "Writing, Talking Elephants, and Klingons: Lawrence M. Schoen discusses his writing process" w/ Jack Bradley, published - May 21,2021 ==Interviews (video)==

• Emmett Plant "All Thumbs" - May 25, 2012 • MTV Geek! "Why Learn Klingon?" - September 2, 2012 • MTV Geek! "How Klingon Started" - September 2, 2012 • MTV Geek! "Klingon" - September 2, 2012 • MTV Geek! "Klingon Language Institute" - September 2, 2012 • ConQuesT 45, Christopher J. Garcia "Themed For Your Pleasure" - May 24, 2013 ==References==