Eugen Bacon

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Eugen Bacon (née Matoyo) is an African-Australian computer scientist and author of speculative fiction. She was born near Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, lived in Nairobi as a toddler, and later lived in the United Kingdom before moving to Melbourne, Australia. She studied Information Technology at Strathmore University in Kenya, holds an MSc in distributed computer systems from the University of Greenwich, and has an MA and a PhD in writing. She speaks English and Swahili. Her fiction is described as literary speculative fiction, including black speculative fiction and afrofuturism. Claiming T-Mo (2019) was her debut novel. She was writer-in-residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre in 2021, received a 2024 Otherwise Fellowship, and chaired the jury for the 2025 Otherwise Awards.

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Books

• Claiming T-Mo (2019) · Claiming T-Mo Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 finalist mention)

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