Andrew Liptak is a writer and historian from Vermont. He is the Public Relation and Guest Services Coordinator for the Vermont Historical Society, and is the author Cosplay: A History (Saga Press, June, 2022), a broad history of how cosplay came to be a mainstream force, and what it says about our relationship with the stories we love. You can order it here.

Liptak has worked as a journalist for more than a decade, appearing in places such as Clarkesworld Magazine, Gizmodo, Grist, io9, Kirkus Reviews, Lifehacker, OneZero, Pando Daily, Polygon, Slate, Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, VentureBeat, The Verge, and other publications. He currently writes Transfer Orbit, a newsletter about the intersection of speculative fiction and real life, which you can subscribe to here.

His first short story, ‘Fragmented’, appeared in Galaxy’s Edge Magazine in May 2014 (reprinted at The Art of Future War Project in 2015 and more recently on Transfer Orbit). In 2014, he published his first anthology (co-edited with Jaym Gates), War Stories: New Military Science Fiction, which you can buy it from Apex Publications, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

He graduated in 2007 from Norwich University with a bachelor’s degree in History and minor in Geology, and in 2009 with a master’s degree in Military History. He attended the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop in 2014, and is an official "Mad Scientist" for the US Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC).

He is represented by Seth Fishman of the Gernert Company. He lives with his wife, Megan, and children in central Vermont.