Eric Heideman

Eric Heideman was born June 25, 1953, and grew up in Houghton/Hancock Michigan, where he was a Sea Explorer, and where he still loves to canoe. He attended Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, majoring in English, editing the student newspaper, and helping run the college coffee house. In 1972 he volunteered for the George McGovern presidential campaign in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and California. He moved to Minneapolis in 1977, and he obtained an M.A. in library science in 1981 from the University of Minnesota (his thesis was Shazam! An Introduction to Comic Books). Since then, he has worked as an office temporary, an artists' model, a substitute school librarian and teacher, and a substitute public librarian. Since August 1998 he has been a children's librarian with the Minneapolis Public Library system, giving storytimes and puppet shows on Wednesday mornings.

Eric has written over 125 reviews and features for Twin Cities publications including the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Twin Cities Reader. His fiction has appeared in Writers of the Future, Volume III (Bridge Publications), Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1988 (Walker).

Eric has been a regular volunteer for Twin Cities SF conventions since 1982, founding an SF coffee house, Krushenko's (named after a bistro in Larry Niven's Ringworld), serving several times as Chair of Diversicon and Arcana, and serving as Programming Director or Co-Director 15 times for four different conventions (with two more Programming gigs coming up in 2000). He founded the Minnesota Science Fiction Society's semiprozine, Tales of the Unanticipated, in 1986 and will bring out issue #21 in April 2000. He lives in a co-op apartment building overlooking a Minneapolis park with his faithful phone-answering cats, Sarah Jane Smith and Benjamin Disraeli II, in his employ since May 1987.

ISBN 1-929611-05-6
Somehow It Fits: The TOTU Interviews
by Eric Heideman