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 new novel Lama with a Gun (2023) was called an "exhaustively researched, bloody, and compelling work of historical fiction" by Kirkus, and his debut, Project 137 (2019) 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, and The Molotov Cocktail. 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 and daughters.