About Seth

Fiction and non-fiction, from crime to love stories, found in the most unlikely places on this Earth... and beyond.

Seth Augenstein is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. His debut novel, Project 137 (2019) was called “an involving, tense and visceral near-future thriller” by Kirkus, and it won a Readers Favorite award.

His short stories have appeared in more than a dozen magazines and fiction podcasts, including Writer's Digest, The No Sleep Podcast (forthcoming), The Grey Rooms podcast, The Molotov Cocktail, and others.

He spent a decade writing for New Jersey newspapers, most recently at The Star-Ledger. He picked up some state journalism awards, along travels to crime scenes, hospital operating rooms, natural disasters, funerals, and quiet homes. He was also the editor of Forensic Magazine, a tour guide at the James Joyce Centre, and a student in Saul Bellow’s final class.

Now he lives on a rocky ridge in New Jersey with his wife, daughters, dog named Mishima, and cats. His next novel, Lama with a Gun, emerges on Oct. 11, 2023.