Shane Jiraiya Cummings
| Shane Jiraiya Cummings | |
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Shane Jiraiya Cummings in 2014
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| Born |
24 April 1974 Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation |
Writer editor |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Period | 2003 to present |
| Genre |
Horror fiction Fantasy Speculative fiction |
| Literary movement | Dark fiction |
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Shane Jiraiya Cummings (born 24 April 1974) is an award-winning Australian horror and fantasy author and editor. He lives in Sydney with his partner Angela Challis. Cummings is best known as a short story writer. He has had more than 100 short stories published in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, and Asia. As of 2015, he has written 12 books and edited 10 genre fiction magazines and anthologies, including the bestselling Rage Against the Night.
Born in Sydney, Australia as Shane Cummings, he has used "Jiraiya" as his part of his legal name since his Iga-ryu Ninjutsu and Sports Chanbara sensei Kazuo "Crando" Saito bestowed the name to him in the early 1990s when he attained his black belt in Ninjutsu.
He lived for many years in Perth, Western Australia and Wellington, New Zealand, before returning to Sydney in 2015.
Cummings graduated from Whitireia New Zealand's Creative Writing programme with a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Creative Writing) in 2014.
In 2004, Cummings co-founded Australian independent publisher Brimstone Press and Shadowed Realms online magazine with partner Angela Challis. In 2005, Cummings founded HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Blog, a news and review blog. He has edited the fiction anthologies Rage Against the Night, Shadow Box, Black Box, Robots and Time, and Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006 edition, and the co-edited the magazines Shadowed Realms, Midnight Echo (issue 2) and Black: Australian Dark Culture.
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