Lou Anders - Biography and Journalism

Biography and Journalism

Lou Anders is originally from Birmingham, Alabama, but has lived in multiple cities in several states. In 2003, he returned to Birmingham, Alabama having moved there from Los Angeles via San Francisco.

He describes his route through the science fiction and writings businesses as broadly beginning with "theatre in college lead to a partial scholarship to study acting in Oxford and London". This in turn got him into

"..directing plays in Chicago, which lead to working on sets in Los Angeles, which lead to journalism & screenwriting, the former being "scifi" based, which lead to internet publishing, which lead to publishing."

Anders' break came in 1994, when he become involved with the UK's Titan Publishing when they were about to launch the first Star Trek magazine, Star Trek Monthly (launched in March 1995). Recommended to Titan by Jean-Marc Lofficier, Anders became Titan Publishing Group's 'Los Angeles liaison', "churning out about 30 articles a month on average and living on the Star Trek and Babylon 5 sets". Anders was writing scripts and pitches on the side with a writing partner, and in 1996, was asked to wrote The Making of Star Trek: First Contact for Titan.

Between 1994 and 1999, Anders wrote around 500 articles, which have appeared in multiple magazines on a variety of - primarily science fiction-related - subjects, and Babylon 5 in particular. His articles have appeared in Babylon 5 Magazine, Doctor Who Magazine, Dreamwatch, Manga Max, Sci Fi Universe, Star Trek Monthly and Star Wars Monthly, and been translated into several languages. Much of his work has also appeared online at sites including Believermag.com, SFSite.com, RevolutionSF.com and InfinityPlus.co.uk, while many of his Star Trek and Babylon 5 articles and interviews "have been illegally transcribed and are scattered throughout sites the world over".