About Gord Sellar
The quick-capsule method is one I always find difficult to apply to my own life, but here goes: I’m an SF writer who teaches at a university in South Korea, and is living with his fiancée in Bucheon, a suburb of Seoul. More details follow:
Writer/Editor: I’ve been freelance writing and editing for more than a decade. Aside from some technical editing gigs, my first postgraduate job was technical writing in Montreal, and I have been writing articles and columns for Cahoots Magazine since its inception in 2005. I’ve also published verse in a few places.
But my true passion is for writing fiction. After receiving the generous Susan C. Petrey Memorial Scholarship, I attended Clarion West 2006. I made my first fiction sale a few months after Clarion West, and haven’t looked back since.
Teacher: I’ve been teaching for over a decade now, as well. Stints teaching saxophone and music theory aside, the focus of my work has been the teaching of writing and the English language, which I’ve done at Canadian and Korean universities since 1998. I am currently teaching at a university in Bucheon, South Korea.
Blogger: Though active online since 1995 or so, I’ve been blogging here since 2002, as well as blogging collaboratively elsewhere. Though I live in Korea, I don’t consider myself a Korea-blogger, but that doesn’t prevent others from considering me one.
Musician: As a high school student and university undegraduate, I studied the saxophone, contrabass, jazz and classical music theory, and music composition, and I performed with various big bands and a live ambient-music group, in addition to leading my own ensembles and experimental groups. In Korea, I played saxophone (and occasionally flute and backing vocals) with an indie-rock band, Dabang Band, from 2002-2004. (Many music samples are available here, and you can buy a Dabang CD here.)
Expatriate: I was born in Malawi to a British-Malawian father and a French Canadian mother; grew up in various parts of Canada, but mostly in Saskatchewan. At the end of 2001 I left Canada and have been living in South Korea ever since. I speak enough Korean to make small talk with strangers and to get things done on a daily basis, but too little to debate politics or philosophy.
Linux-Head: I’ve used DOS, and several versions of Windows, Mac, and Linux, and Ubuntu Linux has been my favorite OS so far. I switched to Linux around the time all my old Window-user friends hurriedly migrated to Mac and started exlusively consuming technology with a lowercase “i” on the front of the product name. Me, I’m happier paying less for equal stability, even if I do occasionally have to go trawling webforums to figure out how to achieve that stability.
You can also find me elsewhere online, like at flickr, or Facebook. I also have profiles for tracking my books and other media at Librarything and Listal.
