Shane Jiraiya Cummings (born 24 April 1974, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian horror short story writer and editor. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand with his partner Angela Challis. Born Shane Cummings, he has used "Jiraiya" as his part of his legal name since his Iga-ryu Ninjutsu and Sports Chanbara sensei Kazuo "Crando" Saito bestowed the name to him in the early 1990s.
Cummings is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, the Horror Writers Association (US), and a graduate of the Clarion South writers workshop (2005). He has had more than sixty short stories published in Australia, USA, and Europe, and his stories have been translated into Spanish, Polish, and French.
In 2004, Cummings co-founded Australian independent publisher Brimstone Press and Shadowed Realms online magazine with partner Angela Challis. In 2005, Cummings founded HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Blog, a news and review blog. He has edited the fiction anthologies Shadow Box, Black Box, Robots and Time, and Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 2006 edition, and the co-edited the magazines Midnight Echo (issue 2) and Black: Australian Dark Culture.
Cummings has won two Ditmar Awards and has been nominated for more than twenty other genre awards for his writing and editing including Spain's Premio Ignotus.
In 2007, Cummings was the Convenor of the Horror judging panel in the Aurealis Awards. He was a judge for the Australian Shadows Award in 2007 and 2008. Cummings continued on with the Australian Shadows Award as Director from 2009.
Shane Jiraiya Cummings served as Vice President of the Australian Horror Writers Association from September 2008 to Sept 2010 .
Cummings self-published seven e-books simultaneously in January 2011.
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