Elwin Cotman

Elwin Cotman is a storyteller from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of three collections of speculative short stories, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP, Hard Times Blues, and Dance on Saturday.

Cotman's work has appeared in Grist, Weird Fiction Review, Black Gate, Electric Lit, and Buzzfeed, among others. He was a core member of the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers Cooperative, a DIY writers space in Pittsburgh. He was nominated for the 2020 Philip K. Dick Award, and has done scriptwriting for Square Enix.

Cotman holds a BA from the University of Pittsburgh and a MFA from Mills College.