Bruce Sterling (Writer)

posted by Scott Andrew Bird

Author, journalist, editor, critic.

Bruce Sterling was born on April 14th, 1954, in Brownsville, Texas, to M. B. Sterling and Gloria Vela.

Sterling attended the University of Texas, Austin, from 1972 to 1976. He married Nancy Adell Baxter in 1979, during which time he was employed as a proof-reader and sat on the Texas Legislative Councile. By 1983 he was a full time writer. Along with his novels, his numerous short stories (published in such magizines as Omni, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and Europe's Interzone), Sterling has been known to publish in journalism (Wired Magazine, for instance). He is well cited as both a critic and a theorist; his literature aims to reveal the technology of a global 21st century with "visionary intensity and imaginative concentration."

He lives with his wife and two daughters in Austin, Texas.