John McDaid

John McDaid is an award-winning science fiction author, folk/filk singer-songwriter, and freelance journalist from Portsmouth, RI.

He attended the Clarion workshop in 1993, and sold his first short story, the Sturgeon Award-winning "Jigoku no mokushiroku" to Asimov's in 1995. A novelette, "Keyboard Practice," appeared in the January, 2005 F&SF and was a 2006 Hugo Honorable Mention. His story "Umbrella Men" was the cover story of the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction. His most recent work, "We Knew The Glass Man," was featured in an invited reading at the 2019 Hypertext conference in Hof, Germany.

In 2020, he released his debut solo studio album, "Trail Of Mars," available on Amazon Music.