Allan Dyen-Shapiro is a Ph.D. biochemist whose research career spanned molecular/cellular biology, genetics/genomics, enzymology, plant/microbial biology, environmental science, mathematical modeling/systems biology, and extensive collaborations with engineers. Following a brief interlude doing everything from patent law to supporting himself with his guitar, he landed as an educator. He currently teaches in a high-poverty public high school. His stories are often near-future science fiction, with forays into cyberpunk, hard SF, humor, alternate history, and horror. He also co-edited an anthology of speculative fiction set in the Middle East. He’s an active member of SFWA and Codex and a First Reader for Flash Fiction Online. He blogs on topics of interest to his readers: environmentalism, futurism, science, and science fiction. His blog is available on his website, allandyenshapiro.com, where you’ll also find links to his stories. He lives in Southwest Florida.
“The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds,” standalone novelette out in paperback and digitally with Rampant Loon Press, June 2025.
“MindsEye Lets You Love Again,” Factor Four, May 2025.
“The Six Clues That Tipped Me Off That You Were An Assassin From The Future Coming To Kill Me,” Small Wonders, October 2024.
“Healthcare Bitch is Here for Da People” and “In the Darkness, Defending the Wall” in Southern Truths, B-Cubed Press, October 2024.
“Scam Likely and the Future Desperados,” Translunar Travelers Lounge, August 2024.
“Midnight Meal at a Kobe Noodle Joint,” Stupefying Stories 26, October 2023.
“Side Effects,” Dark Matter Magazine, March/April 2023.
“Caliban’s Cameras,” Stupefying Stories 25, March 2023.
“Kaddish for Stalin,” in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, December 2022.
“Crazy Horse’s Prodigal Granddaughter,” Grantville Gazette, January 2020.
“Like Him with Friends Possess’d,” Flash Fiction Online, December 2019.
“Crossing the Boundaries of Virtual Jerusalem” in HOLY COW: SF Stories from the Center of the World, July 2019.